KEY INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Pall Mall Mixed-use regeneration project in the city centre comprising 1,000 homes and 400,000 sq ft of offices alongside shops, leisure and community facilities.
Liverpool Waters A land sale that will form part of Peel Holdings’ £5bn project to transform the city’s northern docks.
INVESTOR INTEREST
In one of the top four biggest deals outside London last year, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority paid around £300m to increase its stake in the Liverpool One shopping centre to 65%.
Lone Star sold a 365,000 sq ft office complex in Liverpool to Shelborn Asset Management for £42m. The acquisition of Exchange Flags is Shelborn’s third office investment in the city this year and sees the firm control more than 800,000 sq ft of workspace.
CONNECTIVITY
Mainline train station with direct links to the North, Birmingham and London. City will be on the HS2 line, which will make the journey to London in 97 minutes.
WHO TO KNOW
Joe Anderson, mayor and leader of the council; Asif Hamid, interim chair for Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership. A metro mayor will be elected in May 2017.
IN THE KNOW
Famous for the Beatles, Liverpool and Everton football clubs, but Liverpool is also a Unesco world heritage site and maritime mercantile city.
SEE ALSO: North data sheets
