The private sector is to play a key role in drawing up a new 10-year masterplan for Liverpool city centre.
Economic development company Liverpool Vision said today that a steering group with a private sector majority had been formed to draw up a Strategic Investment Framework, to be published by next spring.
It includes representatives from property companies Land Securities and Bruntwood, and from Gorsvenor’s Liverpool One retail development.
The SIF steering group also includes representatives from Liverpool in Business; Professional Liverpool; Liverpool John Moores University; 2Bio; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Arena and Convention Centre; Merseytravel; and Liverpool City Council.
The SIF is being developed by a consortium headed by Drivers Jonas Deloitte and including Planit and Martin Stockley Associates. They will be assisted by advisers Graham Russell from Amion and Joe Berridge from Toronto-based Urban Strategies, who has played a key role in urban regeneration projects including the waterfronts in Toronto, New York and London and the downtown areas of Manchester, St. Louis and Detroit.
David Guest, regional director of Bruntwood, said: “The new framework will provide a basis for the city’s next generation of international city centre development.”
Liverpool Vision’s Chief Executive, Max Steinberg who chairs the group, said it would aim to “give confidence to those considering investing in the city.”
The SIF will build upon the Strategic Regeneration Framework 2000, which envisaged developments including: Liverpool One, the Arena and Convention Centre, the Museum of Liverpool, the canal link, the cruise liner facility and St Paul’s Square, as well as suggesting that the city bid to be European Capital of Culture.
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