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Moment of truth for Covent Garden Next, M&S, Boots ... Covent Garden is in danger of becoming just another high street
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IF Covent Garden were a pin-table, it would be starting to flash
up "tilt". It's still a kind of icon. Urban regenerators across
Britain always say they'd like "to create another Covent Garden". But
the original is starting to slip over the edge into the kind of place
that might be anywhere.
Commercial pressures can quickly kill the goose that lays the
golden egg.
This happened fastest in Carnaby Street, which collapsed into tat
within 10 years. In a city, everything is either ...
