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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
The Garden Festival site has been partly restored (some of it's going to be residential) and is open I believe.
Visited Liverpool a few times recently- quite impressed, I believe its much better than it was before Liverpool 1 was built.
The accent does grate a bit, though!
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The garden festival site will be:
a vibrant new community with over 1,300 new homes across 26 residential blocks...
I hate it when they use the word community in a context like this - a community as to develop not be created from scratch.
Granted the buildings of Liverpool One look nice but I'm not really interested in another shopping destination... yes this is a woman saying this, pick yourself up off the floor! I've been to too many already - Trafford centre, Bull Ring Birmingham, Touchwood Solihull, Merry Hill Dudley, Meadowhall Sheffield... And it's taken trade away from other parts of the city centre.
Glad someone agrees with me about the accent!
I was rather sad when we visited in 2008 the year of City of Culture that the museum was only half finished and the pier head area was a building site. Bad timing, I thought. They were only just finishing off Liverpool One then too.