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