Liverpool One

[Get Carter]

I live a lot nearer to Liverpool One but its probably actually quicker for me to get to the Trafford Centre and the parking is free. Yes its full of mancs but dare I say let, less mancy mancs than usual. The range of shops there pisses over Liverpool One.

 

Liverpool One was unfortunately built in a bad era climate wise, hence why there's a lot of empty holes where there's shops. The shops that are there are pretty much all the same.

 

The worst part of it is that Church Street has gone down the nick big time, and for anyone coming into Liverpool on the train they have to walk through the shitty bits to get to Liverpool One.

 

Maybe in 4 or 5 years time it'll be a lot better.

 

 

As much as it pains me to say it, Manchester City Centre, in fact Manchester in general, is light years ahead of Liverpool. Their council seems to get things pretty much spot on. Ours is a joke.

 

 

Agreed. I think mancshester council is run by some lord who has no interest personal financial gain or fame and is only interested in doing whats best for the long term future of the city not like the brown envelope brigade who have been running our city for the last 30 years

[WaltonRed]

I dont like the council as much as the next man but to say they never played a part in it is laughable.

 

As for my favourite bit, its when you walk through from Topman and you come past the old quiggins and then back in to the tunnel and you come out by the Waterstones.

 

Its boss at night when the shops are closed and no one is about as well.

[Get Carter]

I am not saying they didn't give it the nod but it was a fuckin no brainer. I don't however believe they had anything to do with the planning and design.

 

I do however think it is ace and the city centre is all the better for it!!

[TG3]

I think Liverpool one is brilliant. Its got everything you could need.

 

Those saying that the parking is free in the Trafford Centre, well you'd have to get to the trafford centre first so the money you have saved in petrol is countered by the parking fees! You can't honestly expect free parking in town.

 

Some of the restaurants are fantastic and the range of shops is more than adequate. You still have all the stores that were there before plus many more.

 

Its saves a wretch, especially if you don't drive.

 

Oh and the revamp of Bold St looks like its only going to add more to the city centre!

[Carradona]

I like Bold Street as it is.

[WaltonRed]

I like Bold Street as it is.

 

I concure Cain, its quaint and its a nice contrast to Liverpool One but Central station needs an overhaul badly and I think it might be tied in with that.

[OmarVizquel]

Liverpool One is great. It's one of the nicest modern outdoor shopping centers I've seen anywhere in Europe or the US. It fits really nicely into that area of the city, and even though it's full of shops you can find in any city, it has a nice character about it (especially up on the top level w/ all those restaurants). I wouldn't change any of it. Most of the shell suit knobheads even seem scared off of it for some reason.

 

I don't go to Bold Street much anymore. Matta's and FACT are nice, that's about it.

[Fugitive]

I concure Cain, its quaint and its a nice contrast to Liverpool One but Central station needs an overhaul badly and I think it might be tied in with that.

 

I think Bold Street is going to be kept as a nice little street with quirky shops and just given an facelift.

 

It's all the land behind it that is being redeveloped along with Lewis' and Rapid. They are building a 5 star Hotel where Rapid was.

 

They are building ANOTHER Cinema there as well. Fact are fuming about it.

[liver bird]

It has its pro's and con's... it still hasn't brought a lot more 'new' stuff to liverpool, which is what will draw people away from the twatford center.

 

it has helped stem the mass exodus of Liverpool people to the trafford centre, so far a massive success

[Fugitive]

Here is a site with more pics and Echo stories.

 

Liverpool central village - Liverpool Wiki

 

[WaltonRed]

FACT should have no worries unless its one that shows the same type of films as it does.

 

The Odeon get their crowd, FACT get theirs.

[liver bird]

I live a lot nearer to Liverpool One but its probably actually quicker for me to get to the Trafford Centre and the parking is free. Yes its full of mancs but dare I say let, less mancy mancs than usual. The range of shops there pisses over Liverpool One.

 

Liverpool One was unfortunately built in a bad era climate wise, hence why there's a lot of empty holes where there's shops. The shops that are there are pretty much all the same.

 

The worst part of it is that Church Street has gone down the nick big time, and for anyone coming into Liverpool on the train they have to walk through the shitty bits to get to Liverpool One.

 

Maybe in 4 or 5 years time it'll be a lot better.

 

 

As much as it pains me to say it, Manchester City Centre, in fact Manchester in general, is light years ahead of Liverpool. Their council seems to get things pretty much spot on. Ours is a joke.

 

with respect thats a load of horseshit, the occupancy rate of Liverpool one is high. Also Church street has improved, it has had to up its gain, primark brings people there, the pavements have been redone and mark and sparks has just undergone a reburbishment not to mention BHS has more customers and foot fall than its ever seen I imagine....I think some people have short memories and need to take another trip to Liverpool.

[Fugitive]

Then there is also these developments that are going ahead.

 

Liverpool Waters - Liverpool Wiki

 

The Mann island project - Liverpool Wiki

 

Wirral Waters - Liverpool Wiki

[liver bird]

I'd never go to the Trafford Centre or any other hellhole souless generic shitpit shopping centre such as Meadowhall or Bluewater.

At least Liverpool 1 is in the city centre so you can easily wander off and it has some interesting features like that zig zaggy thing

 

exactly, the trafford centre is a souless cultureless shithole, some people like that type of thing I personally don't, Liverpool one has most of what the trafford centre has withstunning views that open up onto the albert dock and the obvious attractions of being slap bang in a city.

 

Its architecture is clean and modern not some pretentious cheapo looking roman mural.

[liver bird]

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Agreed. I think mancshester council is run by some lord who has no interest personal financial gain or fame and is only interested in doing whats best for the long term future of the city not like the brown envelope brigade who have been running our city for the last 30 years

 

Manchester is run well but gets a lot of help in being the self styled capital of the north west, witness the football museum going there and yet theres people in Liverpool who think this is a good thing, if only they knew.

 

if we are going to congratulate manchester council on this thread then I'd like to congratulate the liverpool council in its partnership with Grosvernor, not a popular thing to say but true, they don't always get things wrong.

[liver bird]

I dont like the council as much as the next man but to say they never played a part in it is laughable.

 

As for my favourite bit, its when you walk through from Topman and you come past the old quiggins and then back in to the tunnel and you come out by the Waterstones.

 

Its boss at night when the shops are closed and no one is about as well.

 

exactly, might be mistake but wasn't it the council that asked various companies to submit schemes and then picked grosevnor, handed over the lease and let them get on with it.

[melons]

I'd never go to the Trafford Centre or any other hellhole souless generic shitpit shopping centre such as Meadowhall or Bluewater.

At least Liverpool 1 is in the city centre so you can easily wander off and it has some interesting features like that zig zaggy thing

 

 

Oi, whats wrong with bluewater? I once managed to get all my christmas shopping done in one day at that place. I can do the same with Chester, but it involves far to many bus rides to off load at the park and ride.

 

I also found got the hint i was pregnant with my 3rd child thanks to the woman in lewis'. Bitch.

[Iantn]

It beats the Trafford centre because:

 

A) its In Liverpool and not Manchester

 

B) its not full of Mancs.

 

Got to the end of that first page and this was the point I was gonna make.

 

Why drive to Mancland to keep them lot in jobs cos it's a bit warmer being indoors?

[WaltonRed]

The one thing i'd love to see in my lifetime is a bridge over the Mersey.

 

Imagine it, a proper landmark, golden gate esque bridge across it.

 

Footpath, road and train, it would be immense.

[Vincent Vega]

The one thing i'd love to see in my lifetime is a bridge over the Mersey.

 

Imagine it, a proper landmark, golden gate esque bridge across it.

 

Footpath, road and train, it would be immense.

 

[Fugitive]

 

Crazy mother fuckers are building another next to it.

 

Two fucking bridges.

 

The new Bridge | Halton Borough Council

[WaltonRed]

They should get it on, a massive public works programme to get people in to work, Hoover Dam style.

[Carradona]

Tell you what though, all this talk of Liverpool One and Bold Street has got me thinking of how good Liverpool is.

 

It pisses all over Belfast.

[Nick Leeson]

Parking in L1 isn't that bad in the evening. I only paid £2 to park the last time I went the cinema on a Saturday night which was 4 weeks ago maybe.

[Dougie Do'ins]

I live a lot nearer to Liverpool One but its probably actually quicker for me to get to the Trafford Centre and the parking is free. Yes its full of mancs but dare I say let, less mancy mancs than usual. The range of shops there pisses over Liverpool One.

 

Liverpool One was unfortunately built in a bad era climate wise, hence why there's a lot of empty holes where there's shops. The shops that are there are pretty much all the same.

 

The worst part of it is that Church Street has gone down the nick big time, and for anyone coming into Liverpool on the train they have to walk through the shitty bits to get to Liverpool One.

 

Maybe in 4 or 5 years time it'll be a lot better.

 

 

As much as it pains me to say it, Manchester City Centre, in fact Manchester in general, is light years ahead of Liverpool. Their council seems to get things pretty much spot on. Ours is a joke.

I think you must have visited L1 not long after it opened. Maybe this was why a lot of the shop units were still vacant. As for your comment about church street. You couldn't be more wrong. The positive knock on effect L1 has had on church st is obvious.

 

I work in Manchester city center and tbh I don't see that much difference in the shops. How ever a city center is not all about it's shops. It's also about how it looks and L1 pisses all over the Arndale. As has been mentioned the TC isn't in the city center so to compare it to L1 is unfair. TC was built on a brownfield site with no restrictions, where as L1 had to find a way of blending in with it surroundings.

 

I just think Liverpool city center is much more pleasing on the eye and it's architecture is second only to the over crowded London. Also because of L1 the Albert dock and the Pier Head with the new canal extension is much more accessible

 

The only thing Manchester has that we don't is the tram system. Your could be right about Manchester being ahead of Liverpool in certain aspects but it's commonly known that they had a kick start a few years ago in the form of the IRA bomb. Something even the Mancs fully admit to.