Work on movie and leisure complex starts to roll
PREPARATORY work has begun on a £4m cinema and leisure complex in West Lancashire.
Goods lifts serving the second floor at the Concourse Shopping Centre in Skelmersdale are being moved and improved ahead of main building work.
Jo Salmon, retail portfolio manager for London and Cambridge Properties (LCP), which is delivering the project on behalf of the centre’s partners, said the tendering process with building contractors, architects and suppliers was also under way.
She said that because work is taking place on the second floor of the centre the impact on existing stores and shoppers would be minimal.
“We are very excited to start work on this much-anticipated scheme,” she said.
“We are planning a very large and complex scheme, so although we may not have construction staff on site yet, we are working very hard to deliver the leisure development at the earliest opportunity.
“The tenants and our customers are all very much behind it and we are looking forward to bringing this exciting and much-needed cinema and restaurant development to Skelmersdale and have every confidence that it will be something that people in the town will be very proud of.”
It is hoped the seven-screen cinema and restaurants will ensure the future viability of the Concourse Shopping Centre, and will create at least 40 new jobs, as well as protect the 800-plus jobs that are already at there.
LCP has substantial retail holdings situated in town centre shopping schemes in the North West including The Concourse Shopping Centre, Skelmersdale, and The Hardshaw Centre, St Helens. In addition, the Wulfrun Centre, Wolverhampton; Churchill Centre, Dudley; Park Place, Walsall; and Aldridge in the West Midlands and the Wellington Centre, Aldershot, in the South.
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