King's Waterfront
Liverpool is
currently one of the largest regeneration projects in Europe.
In its 798-year
history, Liverpool has never seen so much capital
infrastructure spending. The Duke of
Westminster and his company
Grosvenor is spending the best part of a billion
pounds sterling rebuilding the city centre
See
Live Webcam and Updated high quality extensive Photos of
the city's regeneration programme
Liverpool's Skyline
Liverpool's biggest projects include:
For a full and comprehensive list of
Completed and Future projects click
here
The Government
agency responsible for developing major cities such as
Liverpool and Manchester and the North West area in general
is the North West Development Agency it
is dedicated to making sustainable development a reality for
England's Northwest by investing in people, in the
environment, in business and in ideas
In the past
six years the North West Development Agency claim they have
created or safeguarded 170,000 jobs, created 9,000 new
businesses, reclaimed 3,000 hectares of Brownfield land and
levered £2 billion of private investment
Costs are low and there is huge capacity
for sustainable growth – it is far enough away from the
South to generate growth yet close enough to represent a
real location alternative. Gross weekly earnings are less
than the national average, whilst house prices are
considerably less than the national average, and continue to
remain realistic and affordable. Office rents in the
Northwest are a fraction of those in the South East.
Comparable commercial property costs in London are nearly 350% higher
than in Manchester
With a
population of 441,800, Liverpool is the sixth largest city
in the United Kingdom. Situated in the North West of
England, it has good road and rail connections, along with
rapid trans-global sea routes, and is an ideal place for
property investment
There
are also two international airports nearby: Liverpool John
Lennon Airport in the south of the city, and Manchester
Airport less than an hour's drive away. Major regeneration
projects, inward business investment and an increase in jobs
for local people have seen an upturn in the city's economy
in recent years. All that and a similar tax system has made
Liverpool property an
attractive and profitable investment for a non-resident buyer
Liverpool City Council is committed to the future of the
city and is willing to make Liverpool the place where people
want to work, live and play. This involves encouraging
businesses to come to the city and grow, to develop and come
up with new ideas from which they can profit, and the city
can profit in terms of the jobs this will bring
To view key statistics for Liverpool
Census 2001 please
Click Here
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Unemployment is at its
lowest for 25 years, gross value added is outpacing
the rest of the UK, and both average income and
retail spend are rising strongly
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Liverpool is heading up
the retail rankings and is expected to rank 5th in
2008
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Compared to other city
centres, shoppers in Liverpool shoppers stay longer
and spend more
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Liverpool has a
catchment population of 4.7 million within its
primary and secondary catchment - 60% of them within
30 minutes drive
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Liverpool has a shopping
population of 557,000 which ranks 8th nationwide and
second only to Manchester in the North West
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Liverpool is surrounded
by high spending consumers. Chester, The Wirral and
Southport are hotspots
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Liverpool shoppers
outperform their contemporaries (including
Manchester) on clothing and footwear expenditure
Kings Waterfront is the single largest
development site in Liverpool City Centre. The aim is
to create a visitor destination of international quality
combining arena, conference and exhibition facilities, a
centrepiece for Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008,
with a development of residential, hotel, office, retail,
leisure, community and open space uses
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