
Steve Rotheram Man of the People
I was born in 1961 to a loving stay-at-home Mum and forklift truck driver Dad. Our family moved from Liverpool during the slum clearance programme of the 1960s to the promise of a new utopia in Kirkby.
Trailblazer looks at the prestigious development schemes that are transforming Liverpool city centre.
This impressive image reveals the Royal College of Physicians’ (RCP) new multi-million pound base in Liverpool. The £35m facility, which will serve as the Northern headquarters of the RCP, will be known as The Spine.
Spanning 160,000 sq ft, the complex will feature a staircase on its north elevation that resembles human vertebrae along with an internal sky garden, restaurant, bicycle storage space, showers and underground parking. It will be a major feature of Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter.
Work on Liverpool’s £250million “triple towers” project is underway.
Infinity is a landmark development, at the junction of Pall Mall and Leeds Street, which features three buildings, set to soar to 27, 33 and 39 storeys high.
The development will dramatically change the face of Liverpool. Elliot Group says their project will deliver stunning views that will reach all the way to some of the highest peaks in the Lake District and Wales.
Fox Street Village, being brought forward by developer Lin Mari Group, is part of a stunning regeneration project on the outskirts of Liverpool city centre. The 400 high-specification residential apartment scheme, is playing a major role in the urban renaissance of an area that was once part of North Liverpool’s ‘slum clearance’ programme. The development has a gross value of £30million and has created 250 local construction jobs.
Water Street’s Reliance House is being transformed into a luxury apartment scheme by Legacie Developments and joint sales partner, Ascot Property Investments. The sensitive conversion of the prestigious Edwardian-style building is costing in excess of £20million and is set to become one of the hottest residential addresses in Liverpool city centre.
Work will soon be underway on Signature Living’s Dixie Dean Hotel.
The existing new venture will be part of Liverpool’s first ever ‘Football Quarter’ and will sit opposite the Shankly Hotel on Victoria Street.
The 100 bedroom hotel project is worth around £10 million and will open in early 2019.
I was born in 1961 to a loving stay-at-home Mum and forklift truck driver Dad. Our family moved from Liverpool during the slum clearance programme of the 1960s to the promise of a new utopia in Kirkby.
Lions, tigers, rattlesnakes and spiders – these are just some fo the grizzly creatures that you
may expect to wake up to in the wild, but certainly not in a hotel.
Liverpool, not London that produced the world’s first ‘wet dock’, a technological wonder of the industrial age. Covering 3 1⁄2 acres, the Old Dock was the first of an interlocking network that would eventually span 7 1⁄2 miles of the River Mersey.
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Liverpool law firm MSB is leading the way in supporting people in the workplace facing challenges with mental wellbeing, and unlocking their full potential.
A Coffee With Sid Madge – founder of Meee in a Minute self-help book and the Meee Programme.
Born one of five children to an Irish-Canadian mother and German-American father, Walt Disney used his incredible imagination to create a multi-billion dollar empire
Liverpool – what can you say about this city that hasn’t already been said? Well, quite a lot actually.
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