Key Properties has finally given up the ghost, after some nine months in town. It’s now one of a string of gaps in Clwyd Street.Key Properties has hardly been open over the summer, if at all. Yet, in spite of its formal closure this week, it still has an advert in the Denbighshire Free Press, for a Dinbych/Denbigh town house, a Rhuthun suburban house, a Dinbych factory… and apartments in Cyprus.
Where does this leave Clwyd Street? Not quite half-empty but perhaps increasingly fragile. Recent closures other than Key Properties include Ragazzi (clothes) and B-dazzled/Uproar (accessories/fireworks). Then there’s the very long-term vacancy adjacent to Sun Tân and the use of the property next to Barclay’s as the Children’s Society shop.
The still much missed La Piazza, where incidentally you could hear a recording of the Spanish Gypsy Kings (subsequently an Indian take-away, now closed), former Lavelle’s café, former confectioner, former florist and former children’s clothes shop, all add a little gloom to the streetscape.
Now with Tesco and the northern link road, is Clwyd Street the wrong end of town? Traed Bach (shoes, obviusly), Pam’s sandwiches and a Touch of Class (laundry), all recently opened, think otherwise.
Importantly, though, Clwyd Street has Rhuthun's one remaining newsagent. May be this can still act as a nucleus.
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