New Town Centre for Brecon?

Front page news in the B&R this week was an exhibition "showcasing plans for a multi-million pound redevelopment of Brecon town centre."
Central to this plan seems to be the demolition of the town library, but I don't see any mention of building a new one, or moving it into an existing building. A pity, since it's a very good library - and Joan Aiken the children's author researched her book The Whispering Mountain there!
"It's claimed," says Twm Owen the reporter, "the development of the library and Market Hall site could attract high street names to Brecon town centre," and the council's senior manager for property and design services, Russell Westlake, says "A number of high street retailers have said Brecon is high on their hit list as an important market town."
I'm not sure I like the idea of a 'hit list'. It also occurred to me while I was reading the article that I'm not sure that it's automatically a good idea to attract 'high street names' to a town. Just look at Woolworths - a name that everyone knew, and seemed like a safe bet to have in the town. Then it was gone, overnight, and for reasons that had nothing to do with Brecon, or Hereford - the problems with that business were nothing to do with this area at all.
Wouldn't it be better to nurture local businesses, who have a vested interest in Brecon doing well? And isn't it better to have a recognisably local high street, rather than an identikit array of 'high street names' that could be anywhere?

And won't this mean yet more road works, which have plagued Brecon town centre for years?

The exhibition ran at the (doomed) Brecon Library from Wednesday November 25th to Friday November 27th - so hardly much time for people to find out about it and get over there to make their views known.