"I find it quite amazing that this was once a hive of industry, " added Mr Keen.
It's a hive of goods from cheese to camcorders, often sold at cheaper prices than elsewhere.
When Wales Online's reporter was there on Wednesday afternoon it was a hive of activity.
It will reopen this summer as a hive of business experimentation swarming with scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs.
In the small town of Axim in western Ghana the beach front is a hive of activity.
The stall is a hive of activity: woks filled with noodles, shrimp and spring onion are expertly tended.
As it turns out, Mr. Ascher and his colleagues are discovering New York City is a hive of activity.
It was a hive of activity invisible from the street, a parallel Paris.
The folk scene around the socialist poet and songwriter Ewan MacColl, in particular, was a hive of political activity.
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It has grown so fast that central Nairobi, once a hive of restaurants and night-clubs, feels almost deserted at night.
Mid- and late-19th-century images of Yonkers, just north of New York, depict a hive of industry crowding the Hudson waterfront.
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Over in the House, meanwhile, Republicans have been a hive of activity.
The jute mills are gone but Dundee West remains a hive of industrial and academic activity with a mixture of light engineering and cutting-edge research technology.
The Skype forums are a hive of panic and abuzz with accusations that either the company is bundling crapware with its VoIP app or has a serious security problem.
Expecting an investor to be rational when they have felt the pain of seeing their savings drop by 20% is as difficult as unlikely as expecting a hive of shaken bees to relax.
Yet despite their limitations, slums are also a hive of business activity, full of cottage industries that have sprung up organically, without assistance from the local government, the banking sector, or any part of the formal economy.
The ski village, however, while a welcome hive of activity, has long been an architectural hodgepodge.
During the Cold War, Hanford was a buzzing hive of activity, eventually becoming the main source of plutonium production for the nation's nuclear weapons program.
Clap a fume board on top of a hive and bees flee, making it possible to pilfer their treasure.
If the population of mites in a hive is left unchecked they can sap the strength of workers, making them much more susceptible to viruses, disease and other debilitating conditions.
So the couple proceeded to hive off a slice of the rear section of the garden and used this space to build the home they really wanted.
Wildlife expert Gavin Fletcher, Senior Conservation Officer at Groundwork Leicester and Leicestershire, says that not many bees live socially in a large hive, lots of them are solitary.
"We know that honeybees can fly over 10km from their hive to a patch of flowers to collect food (nectar and pollen) and then fly home - a round trip of over 20km, " says Dr Raine.
It has given Surrey a hive for the Bee Part Of It campaign, based at Polesden Lacey.
Minneapolis-based Hive Modular produces a handful of models created by local architects that have a clean, modern look.
It has given BBC Nottingham a hive for the Bee Part Of It campaign, which will be based at Clumber Park, north Nottinghamshire.
Sean Borodale, a poet and artist who writes documentary poems on location, was also chosen for his debut, Bee Journal, which tells the life of a bee hive.
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