Feelgood factor starts to fade
Dec 31 2008 by Barry Turnbull, Liverpool Daily Post
Culture carries on to ’09 with £200m projects
POST ’08 plans are well under way for Liverpool, which invested £400m in cultural infrastructure projects in the run-up to 2008. They included the new Echo Arena, FACT and Victoria Gallery and Museum, to the restoration of the Bluecoat Arts Centre and St George’s Hall.
Major cultural infrastructure developments worth a further £200m have already begun, such as the new Museum of Liverpool Life and the Design Academy at John Moores University.
Main local job losses and gains in 2008
GAINS
Liverpool One 5,000
in total, number of
new jobs unquantified
Primark 859
Asda Bootle 350
TJ Morris 700
on completion of new
distribution centre
Barclays 246
Ministry of Defence 600
LOSSES
Daresbury Laboratory 350
Amaze 70
Rolls-Royce 212
Unilever 270
Advantage Home Loans 100
Sayers 150
Remploy 40
Streamline 100
Ethel Austin 500
Pimbletts 60
Landround 50
Harry Irving 19
Norwich Union 250
Ryders 40
Rok 200
Urban Splash 60
David McLean 230
HBoS 200
Eurofins 100
Taecanet 20
Greenberg Glass 200
Steria 31
Woolworths unspecified
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