Our latest LDP Business debate focuses on Liverpool city centre’s retail sector. TONY McDONOUGH reports
LIVERPOOL One has transformed the city centre as a leisure and retail destination since it opened in 2008, but work needs to be done in other areas.
That was one of a number of key issues raised by the panel during the latest LDP Business debate on the city’s retail sector, sponsored by Liverpool City Central Business Improvement District (BID).
The debate was chaired by Daily Post business editor Bill Gleeson and on the panel were Chris Bliss, estates director at Liverpool One, Ged Gibbons, chief executive of BID, Cllr Malcolm Kennedy, the city council’s executive member for regeneration and transport, and Dick Mawdsley, owner of retail chain Utility.
Mr Mawdsley’s stores sell up-market homewares and gifts from two locations in the city centre – Liverpool One and Bold Street.
He agreed that the opening of Liverpool One had been transformational for the city, but said more work needed to be done to ensure other parts of the retail core did not suffer as a result.
