Thanks PhilipG
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.
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.
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
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