LIVERPOOL is stepping up its game to draw national and foreign investment to the North West property market and attract more new business occupiers to the city.
With sponsorship from Balfour Beatty, Liverpool City Council recently hosted an evening at the iconic Gherkin building, in the City of London
At the event, Edward Symmons was one of a select group of Liverpool agents attending to discuss the opportunities on offer in Liverpool with London agents, potential investors and key industry influencers.
It is encouraging to see the council continuing to build Liverpool’s profile nationally and internationally.
This follows last year’s Shanghai Expo, the third biggest event in the world after the Olympic Games and the World Cup, where Liverpool was the only UK city outside London to have its own pavilion to promote its business opportunities to a worldwide audience.
Liverpool’s inward investment potential is genuinely exciting, and it is critical that the message regarding the city’s strength as a regional centre hits home.
Nationally, we are seeing the beginnings of a push towards decentralisation, most notably with the BBC’s move to Salford.
It is therefore timely for Liverpool to position itself as a key consideration for business relocation or expansion.
The city’s burgeoning reputation as a hub for wealth management has been underlined with the announcement last month that Cheviot Asset Management has chosen St Paul’s Square for its first office outside London.
Furthermore, projects including the 1m sq ft Liverpool Innovation Park, at Edge Lane, reportedly creating 7,000 new jobs in the ICT and healthcare industries, and Peel Ports’ masterplan for the regeneration of Mersey Ports being proposed to appeal in part to the fast growth renewables industry, represent key steps towards growing our economy and strengthening the city’s business standing.
Initial signs are encouraging.
A Chinese delegation recently made a three-day visit to Liverpool to meet with civic and business leaders.
Chinese investors are now reportedly putting forward half the funding for the first phase of Peel’s International Trade Centre on the Wirral.
Here’s hoping it is the start of things to come.
