Liverpool One [Paradise Street] Shopping Area [Under Construction]
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LIVERPOOL One - that is the brand name being unveiled today for the £920m Grosvenor re-development in the Paradise Street area of the city centre.
The name has been chosen after months of intensive marketing research to find a short and snappy brand label for what is Europe's biggest retail project. The name is being officially revealed in Belfast at a national showcase event for the shopping centre trade.
The branding was created by international consultants Wolff Olins, the company that branded last year's Athens Olympics and branded the telecom giant Orange. Project director Rodney Holmes believes the name will quickly catch on in Liverpool.
He told the Daily Post last night: "We have put a lot of work into coming up with a brand name and believe we have chosen something that will become very popular and noticeable.
"Liverpool One is the most important development in Liverpool's city centre for more than 40 years. It will deliver a shopping, residential and leisure environ- ment that few other cities can match.
"Liverpool One reflects consumer and retailer demand, and places Grosvenor and its partners at the forefront of urban regeneration."
The selection of the name will be used as a launchpad for one of the biggest ever marketing drives to sign up occupants for the development.
Tenants are to be recruited for the 165 retail units that will span 1.6m sq ft. So far, the John Lewis Partnership and Debenhams have been announced as the occupants of the two big anchor stores.
Other retailers are queuing for space in the other 163 units, ranging from large shops to smaller stores.
Explosion rings out across city
Explosion rings out across city
Liverpool's old bus station and NCP car park was demolished in an explosion in the city centre on Sunday.
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The new interchange replaces
the old bus station
The controlled blast was carried out on Paradise Street, with nearby roads closed off to create an exclusion zone.
The buildings have been demolished to make way for part of the Paradise project - the large scale redevelopment of the city's shopping centre.
The explosion was heard across the city and some people reported hearing it as far away as Childwall and Wirral.
The new Liver Street car park and Paradise Street transport interchange, which replaces the old site, opened at the end of last year.
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Liverpool's latest tunnel
WORK is about to start on Liverpool's latest tunnel - an underground road network that will lead motorists to the 2,000-space car park beneath Chavasse Park.
In a complicated engineering project, 8,000 square metres of earth will be excavated to create two vehicle ramps in Strand Street to provide access to the underground car park being built as part of the Grosvenor Project.
When the Grosvenor development opens in 2008, cars will use the ramps, one for traffic coming from Sefton Street, the other from the Pier Head, to enter the basement level of the car park more than 23ft below the road surface.
The ramps will be in the centre of the road, reached by specially marked lanes.
Because of the major work involved it will mean lane diversions along the Strand while the work is carried out to create the underground tunnels.
Grosvenor's construction partner, Laing O'Rourke, begins preparation work to construct the ramps this summer with the main work beginning towards the autumn.
Peter Jones, civil engineer with Laing O'Rourke, said: "One of the main points of arrival to Liverpool One will be the car park that sits underneath what was Chavasse Park.
"Capita Symonds, the project's highways engineers, have designed two ramps, positioned in what is currently the central reservation in Strand Street.
"These ramps will provide an entry point, delivering cars to the lowest basement level of the car park. more