New Improved BullRing (Shopping Areas in Birmingham in general)

Member Name: fweeky-kitty

Product:	Shopping Areas in Birmingham in general
Date:	20/05/01 (266 review reads)
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Advantages: Cleaner, Safer, Friendlier

Disadvantages: An extra 5 seconds from the town centre than the old Bull Ring

A great improvement on the face of Birmingham. Anyone who entered the old Bull ring would tell you it was freezing cold, dirty, cramped and wreaked of fish! It was a horrible building which made Birmingham look quite down market.

Now that the old ratty Bull ring has gone the new improved BullRing (notice the subtle difference in the spelling) built across the road has taken over in glorious style!

Right now there is a huge hole in the middle of the town centre where the old one was, but still it doesn't detract from the pleasing asthetics of the new BullRing and Market as the old builings have been replaced by new, white clean modern builings and having previously worked in the old builing I can honestly say that the improvement cannot be put into words!

There are now an extra couple of hundred safe parking spaces in town above the new centre which are well lit and user friendly. The same shops and stalls all moved across the road, allowing the same range of products, but in a much cleaner and friendlier environment (and the fish market doesn't seem to extend it's smell to the whole building anymore!)

The facilities have also improved. Almost all the entrances are wheelchair friendly and the tiolets are now safe to enter without
fear of catching the plague! New, clean and free of graffitti with doors that actually lock shut again make you feel more safe and confident to enter and shop there.

As a teenage girl I personally feel much safer walking round this new Bullring than I ever did in the old one - even working there made me a bit uncomfortable - but now I feel completely safe (maybe because there are now glass windows for walls and a lot more exits!)

All the improvements to the building have made it more appealing to shop at the BullRing, and for the range of shops (trinkets to hairdressers to butchers) I can't think of anywhere else with such a range of products available in one place!

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