Revolving performance auditiorium set to be unveiled
A major performance venue, with a revolving auditorium, will be at the heart of regeneration plans for Liverpool’s new creative district.
The new music and theatre venue will be the UK’s first-ever Stage-Around Theatre, based on the performance space in Amsterdam.
The venue will be part of a multi-million pound programme to attract creative businesses to the Ten Streets district which is forecast to create an estimated 2,500 new jobs over the next decade.
The Ten Streets vision was being unveiled this morning (Thursday, February 2) at the Titanic Hotel in the city by Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson to mark the start of a public consultation on the area’s future.
The Mayor will tell an audience of creative entrepreneurs and city stakeholders than the Ten Streets district represents “an opportunity of a lifetime to redefine Liverpool’s future as a creative powerhouse of the 21st century”.
The vision for the district, which contains a mix of historic dock warehousing and industrial buildings, is for an area where tech companies, digital businesses and creative enterprises can flourish alongside artistic organizations – becoming a truly distinctive, inventive and vibrant new urban district.
Other key elements include adding new squares and public spaces and making Ten Streets, which covers 125 acres of former dockland between the northern edge of the city centre and the landmark Tobacco warehouse at Stanley Dock, an exemplar neighbourhood for renewable energy.
Ten Streets is part of the city’s big picture regeneration vision that will deliver £11bn investment and create 40,000 new jobs in total over the next 10 years.
As a creative economy district, Ten Streets will complement other employment areas like the Knowledge Quarter, Commercial District and Liverpool Waters.
The Ten Streets vision is being launched to engage local businesses, stakeholders and the wider public in a debate about the area’s future. At this stage, there are no detailed proposals and work on a masterplan for Ten Streets will be informed by the ideas, comments and feedback generated during the month-long consultation campaign.
The starting point for the consultation are Ten Big Ideas, encompassing such themes as innovation, culture, growth, connections and collaboration, that will provide a broad direction for future policy and an emerging vision.
Mayor Anderson said: “The launch of this vision for the Ten Streets district is an opportunity of a lifetime to define Liverpool’s future as a creative powerhouse of the 21st century.
“For me, this new theatre says everything about our ambition for Ten Streets and how the creative sector can unleash the untapped potential of these once celebrated docklands and make them once again a beacon of economic growth.
“The partners involved are of the highest calibre and much like with the Knowledge Quarter, Ten Streets will generate high value jobs and stimulate our economy for decades to come.”
