So things are finally happening and happening fast!
We have a shop, all agreed anyway, nothing actually signed yet but I have a cheque for admin fees to send off to the agent and then its all go.
The owners of the shop are actually selling and have a buyer for the freehold but it will take a while so they are happy to have us in paying rent for 6 months while all the paperwork etc gets sorted. Its great news but they want us in as soon as possible so I have had to shufty all the dates forward two weeks so panic is now setting in.
We had a committee meeting and I took all the proposals along, very hard to choose just 6 artists from all the applications as there were so many great ideas but we did…finally and all 6 have now been informed.
I won’t give names out yet as I’m still waiting to hear from one person to see if they can make it with the shifting dates.
So now its freecycle and ebay to get furniture for the shop and I need to speak with the landlords to see if they are leaving anything, like the fridge :) It’d be good to have some bits left behind.
Its also all ‘slat wall’ stuff and I’m not sure if thats suitable for all the artists so need to figure out whether I cover some of it temporarily…we’ll see.
However, its big, its clean, its secure and its in the EXACT right location so I couldn’t be happier in that respect.
Very exciting 6 months ahead I think.
