Businessman Jonathan Silver, who bought Salt's Mill in 1986, rents part to a telecommunications company and parts to shops. The Hockney galleries were his idea, and the visitors who come to see them have helped bring prosperity to the town. He is not just thinking of Hockney. The Victoria Institute now hosts craft shows and performances of dance and music. Saltaire is on England's A650, which connects to the M606 and M62.
Trains link it to Leeds and from there to London.
Buses travel to Bradford, Leeds, and Haworth, the nearby moorland village where visitors can see the parsonage where the Bronte sisters lived. Indeed, Saltaire itself, like most of the little industrial towns of Yorkshire and neighboring Lancashire, is within sight of the moors.