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The council believes this would create an environment for an experience that would attract visitors to spend more time in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>The report claims the proposal can attract an additional &#8220;110,000 visitors to the City Centre, and create up to 505 jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The council will also be implementing a \u2018Front Door Scheme\u2019 to work with landowners through grant assistance and open-up new direct front door access to upper floors to enable their conversion for new uses.<\/p>\n<p>Fargate and High Street account for one-tenth of city centre retail space, with 103 retail and leisure units. A year ago, vacancy rates stood at just under 25%, above national trends. However, vacancy numbers have increased due to closures under the impact of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Proposal for Fargate:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32250 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/awesome-shockley.77-68-72-77.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-22-at-2.26.52-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Proposal for High Street:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32249 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/awesome-shockley.77-68-72-77.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screenshot-2021-03-22-at-2.27.03-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield&#8217;s historic high street will be receiving \u00a315,817,001 in funding to restructure the city&#8217;s struggling retail economy. 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