The IBM Global Locations Trends Report had listed the combined metropolitan areas of Liverpool and Manchester as the world’s tenth top ranking area for FDI. The report, published today, ranked areas by the number of foreign direct investment projects and the jobs they generated. From 2016 to 2017 Liverpool and Manchester secured 68 major investment… Read more »
Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram has revealed he and the Liverpool City Region leaders are considering the potential for an overhead railway to return to the city’s waterfront. Known as the Dockers’ Umbrella, the light railway operated from the 1890s to the 1950s when it was deemed too expensive to repair and was demolished. Liverpool City… Read more »
New research has shown that the lettings market is seeing substantial activity with viewings up over 13% on the year and lease signings up 3.5%, while supply has declined 6.9%. The quarterly research from estate agent software platform Reapit and Dataloft, residential property market intelligence consultancy, signals an imminent supply-side squeeze in a robust lettings… Read more »
Here’s what a new hotel planned for Liverpool’s waterfront could look like. Wates Construction has been hired by the city council to build the 200-bed hotel that will sit next to the city’s new cruise liner terminal in Princes Parade. And the developer today revealed the first image of what the four-star hotel could look like. Now a public… Read more »
Liverpool City Council is looking to appoint a consultant to draw up a full tall buildings policy, which it said would need to “promote well-designed tall buildings for the right sites” while “respecting the significance” of the city’s World Heritage status. The city council’s Local Plan is currently being prepared, having been submitted for independent… Read more »
It was a 3% rise on August 2017 and contributed to a 2.5% increase in business for the year to date – almost 3.5m passengers have passed through LJLA this year. Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LJLA) enjoyed its busiest month in seven years in August, handling more than 535,000 passengers. It was a 3% rise on… Read more »
Liverpool’s hoteliers are very happy today because our city centre hotels have witnessed a record-breaking start to the year by reaching the one million rooms mark faster than ever before. Newly-released figures show that July was the most successful month ever for city centre hotels, with a record 189,252 beds sold. Liverpool City Council’s latest monthly hotels… Read more »
The Liverpool City Region Combined Authority has approved a grant of £20m from the Single Investment Fund to go towards the construction of the city’s new cruise liner terminal. The funding was singed-off at the latest meeting of the LCR Combined Authority on Friday. McLaughlin & Harvey was confirmed in March as main contractor to… Read more »
Employment figures across the Liverpool City Region are on the up, according to new research, with the “outstanding rate of growth” marking a “significant milestone” in the area’s development. The latest employment data shows an increase of 19,200 residents in work across the region compared to the same period last year. However, it still has… Read more »
Liverpool is all about regeneration and resurgence. The North West city, part of the lucrative Northern Powerhouse project, has been the recipient of an enviable economic boom over the last decade that shows no signs of abating. The Liverpool regeneration dream is one of the biggest undertakings in UK history. The Bramley-Moore Dock build will… Read more »