Tribeca [Great George Street Project]

[petromax]

Thanks PhilipG

Hi Petromax.

So, instead of building houses on sites in the inner cities, what are you suggesting should be built instead?

It sounds like you're suggesting industrial sites.
Admittedly the Eldonian Village was built on the Tate & Lyle site, but even you admit sugar refining won't be returning to Liverpool.
Nor will most of the other industries which have vanished..

The UK lives in a post-industrial age. We can't compete with China in low-end (low-value) manufacturing indutries. Our future economies will be based on high-end, high-value technologies and 'industries'. These tend to be in media, service (including tourism, insurance finance and the professions), research, development, design and 'intellectual' property ie labs, studios, leisure and offices as places to work. I am suggesting medium density living (central Amsterdam, Paris...) and low density leisure.

Quote:
"Similarly in the south, Park Road was at the very start of the commercial success of the port. The previous value of the land as a power house of the city's economy was not incalculable, but it was huge."

This needs some explanation, please.
Park Road was always a shopping area, with the neighbourhood being mainly residential.
Apart from flour milling and Cains (which I'm charitably including as "Park Road", even though they're not) the area was never as you describe it..

Heaps flour mill was one of the last port industries in the area. Park Road originally ran straight down to the Old Dock. There was a plethora of residences/ residence warehouses, warehouses and maritime support industries (rope making, chandleries – Lamb’s was the last to go…?) between Duke Street and Park Road, all the way up to and past Cains. A powerful hub of commerce before the really amazing development of the North End as the heart of the port up to 1938.

Tourism, demolition and new buildings seem to be the way Liverpool is heading.
Certainly in the City Centre.

Nothing wrong with tourism and leisure - one facility in Cape Town has 21m visitors a year. Lego Park in Windsor has about the same. 70,000 went to one event in Memphis this year. Plenty of scope to grow for Liverpool.

The Victorian commercial centre is all in the World Heritage Site. Demolition has been very limited. The centre needs new buildings to grow and a suitable use found for the old buildings