The generation of online red street, also started to fall.
Anyone who is a little familiar with Melbourne has probably heard of Lygon Street.
An alley on the edge of the city center, a gourmet shrine next to the University of Melbourne, punch-in spots for tourists and Internet celebrities, once crowded streets, known as Melbourne`s "Little Italy", are now declining.
Lygon Street, according to the Times, is moving away from the once-filled restaurants and shops. Last year, the vacancy rate on Lygon Street was also 5.6%, and this year, the vacancy rate doubled to 13.5%. And, in recent years, many of the restaurants that have chosen leve Lygon Street have been a "online red store".
However, it is not only the business circle in northern Melbourne of Lygon Street, but also the problem of weak development in recent years. With Elgin and Faraday Streets as the watershed, restaurants in the north and south of Melbourne have developed in a completely different situation. Even restaurant owners on Lygon Street have found that the once unremarkable southern restaurants are now booming, while the once-popular Italian food street in Melbourne is now popular.
The classic Italian pizza shop, the style of the restaurant, the romantic coffee shop. The Italian street is matched with the Australian heat. In many restaurant owners, Lygon Street is certainly the most distinctive block in Melbourne, none of them. How hot was the old LygonStreet?
According to a restaurant owner in Lygon Street, he used to want to have a casual meal on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant, but the sidewalk was packed with people who had come to line up for dinner, and there was no place to settle down. At their busiest hours, even the coffee shop opened until three o`clock in the morning, and now the owners of the coffee shop live a "nine to five" life.
But how has such a hot Lygon Street become more depressed in recent years? Restaurant owners watch their stores go from guest to no one, and they are looking for reasons themselves. Some think Lygon Street parking spaces are too few, some complain that landlords are insatiable, some blame nearby activities too little, some complain that takeout APP is stealing business, some are aware of the rising quality of restaurants in surrounding neighborhoods, some throw pots to ban smoking, and even others feel that the recent free coffee campaign in 711 is also one of the culprits.
Gibaldi, the owner of Lygon Street in 1979, thinks that the ban does reduce the accidental fire, but it also seriously affects Lygon Street`s catering environment. At the same time, she thinks that the massive activity like the F1 equation does not come to the Lygon Street, but also has some kind of relationship with the ban.
But at the same time, she is also worried about whether Lygon Street itself is not as influential as it used to be. In the past, if you wanted to eat authentic Italian food in Melbourne, you had to come to LygonStreet, Gibaldi said, but now it`s full of nice Italian restaurants. In that case, why do diners come all the way to Lygon Street?
Gibaldi said helplessly: ", Lygon Street used to be the `center of the universe`, but now every block has developed its own unique dining and coffee culture." this year, Lygon Street is particularly depressed, and the vacancy rate of street merchants is even as high as 13.5%! In Melbourne, only Chapel Street and Bridge Road, which have a huge impact on retailing, have more vacancy rates than here.
But this year`s vacancy rate has improved, and it seems to be a chance to see a ray of life, Chapel Street, but it`s the wind-and-rain and struggling Chapel Street and Bridge Road. Back to Lygon Street, the boom seems to be so long gone.
Many merchants also believe that the Melbourne people are tired of Lygon Street. The restaurants they have been looking for aren`t new today. And in such cases, the rent of Lygon Street doesn`t fall back, and more and more restaurants have to abandon the land that has been running for years and turn to other towns.
"this street is unparalleled! it`s just that it`s in a bottle now. Does it have a chance to regroup in the future? I`m sure it will." Gibaldi is still full of confidence in the future of LygonStreet.
In fact, News Jun has also been to LygonStreet many times. Italian food is authentic. There is still a long line in front of some restaurants, but it is true that it did not have the style of that year. I hope Melbourne`s "Little Italy" can still meet the difficulties and shine the charm of a new life!
