LIVERPOOL’S city centre is to get a second Odeon Cinema.

The UK’s largest cinema chain owns more than 100 venues up and down the country including an 18-screen picture house in Liverpool One.

But that has not stopped the group from announcing a new six-screen, fully digital, fully 3D, cinema in the Central Village project.

The cinema will also provide the capacity to show additional content including major sporting events, live music and opera.

Work began in the summer on the £200m redevelopment which will see Central Station renovated, the iconic Lewis’ building turned into 180,000 sq ft of leisure and retail space, 80,000 sq ft of offices and a 125-bed hotel.

Merepark chairman Robert Ross, chairman of developer Merepark, said: “We’re currently one of the few tower cranes on the horizon but our progress shows that Liverpool can continue to press forward, even in a tough commercial market.

“Merepark has successfully forward-sold the Lewis’s building element of the scheme as well as the multi storey car park and we have the funding in place to develop a beautiful new plaza by Central Station.”

“Very few developers are delivering anything of this kind in the UK right now and occupiers have responded with enthusiasm to what we’re offering, which is a positive statement about Liverpool’s future.”