Grosvenor’s race against time to deliver its flagship Liverpool One shopping centre in time for mid-2008 has cost the company millions of pounds and sent the total cost to £1bn.
The developer has agreed to bankroll the deficit to the tune of £140m, £50m more than predicted by the company’s analysts just six months ago.
Grosvenor’s outgoing chairman, the Duke of Westminster, yesterday described the need to pour millions of pounds into the Paradise Street as “disappointing”.
But he said in the annual report that using the company’s own resources as a financial lifeline did not detract from his personal pride in the way Grosvenor had met the challenge of regenerating Liverpool. more
Here's a picture of how the Stanley Building will look when it's finished.
http://www.liverpool-one.com/NR/rdon...cebrochure.pdf
Looking good!
I had to explain to someone in work whats going on with the Stanley Building - he thought the scaffolding holding it all up was the frame for a new building, and the existing wall would be some sort of feature inside it
Imaginative at least
^ Whenever I see a render of how buildings are going to look I often look for grannies and black people...sure enough, that render doesn't contain any. (no offence intended it's just something I notice nearly all the time).
Point taken, Marky.
For a render, it looks just like a great photograph!
If the stonework doesn't get cleaned, the reality won't look anywhere near as good.
'Churchyard Arcade'?
Why not 'Woollie's Walk'?
Last edited by PhilipG; 05-04-2007 at 10:01 AM.
I used to use that as a short-cut when it was Woolies, to get to School Lane. There are probably better names connected with the church, rather than just boring Church Yard. There looks to be more windows than I remember...unless it's just I've never seen them all lit up at once.
I wondered what exactly was going on in the old HMV building-it's going to look quite impressive when finished. Is there a basement to the HMV part of it,as the buildings each side have one and it seems odd that HMV never used it as far as I know.
Dave.
The 3 anchor stores for this development are John Lewis, Debenhams as we know and Rackhams (House of Fraser) which I've just learnt about.
Whats happening to those old church street buildings since HMV closed theirs to move to Bold Street?
Gididi Gididi Goo.
The three storey building, which will contain a speciality department store and restaurant, is designed with a series of stepped terraces, that respect the setting of Bluecoat Chambers and the two Grade II listed warehouses on the site. An intimate garden courtyard and laneway between the warehouses and the new building create a pedestrian link through the block. A series of roof lanterns illuminate the second floor restaurant and provide high level detail to the Hanover Street facade. Production design of the project is now progressing and construction is underway.
http://www.haworthtompkins.com/
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