Insight Autumn 2011 Page 13

Artist's impression of the proposed theatre

£28 million redevelopment
of historic Liverpool theatre

The Liverpool Everyman theatre is currently undergoing a £28 million
refurbishment which will feature a new 400-seat theatre built on the
site of the original building.

Due to reopen in 2013, the newly-designed Hope Street theatre

will accommodate a youth and community space for education and
community groups, rehearsal space, workshops and offices for
productions staff, a hub for writers to develop their work, and public
and private meeting facilities.

The front of the new building will be glass, but will feature 105 life-

sized, abstracted portraits of Liverpool people transferred onto cut
aluminium shutters. There will also be a pavement café outside, a
first-floor theatre bar with a balcony overlooking Hope Street and a
new incarnation of the legendary Everyman bistro in the basement.

In March of this year the
government announced that it
has chosen `Mersey Waters' as
an Enterprise Zone.

The Mersey Waters Enterprise

Zone will straddle both sides of
the River Mersey and cover the
area of two major regeneration
projects focused on either side -
Wirral Waters and Liverpool
Waters. They are being
developed by The Peel Group.

Wirral Waters is centred on the

left bank of the river at the
Birkenhead Docks and Liverpool
Waters is focused towards the

north of Liverpool city centre into
the derelict dock areas adjacent
to Princes Dock.

It is planned that Mersey

Waters will contribute to the
development of a new `superport'
which has been proposed for the
city which will integrate the
services and facilities offered by
the Port of Liverpool and the
Manchester Ship Canal, bringing
together port, road, rail and
airport facilities in the region.

The £1.8 billion superport

aims to develop intermodal
freight and passenger facilities,
making the Liverpool city region
the leading distribution and
logistics hub for the north of
England. The concept aims to
create the most effective and
cost-efficient environment for
freight cargo logistics and
passenger transit in the UK.

Liverpool
docklands
zone to see
investment

A huge street exhibition is being planned in the city to commemorate the 100th anniversary
of the sinking of the Titanic, which hit an iceberg on its maiden transatlantic voyage in 1912,
causing the death of more than 1,500 passengers and crew.

Many of those on board were Liverpool residents and James Street was the home

of the White Star liner's headquarters from where the Titanic was planned and organised.

Taking place in April 2012, the event will feature a street art exhibition that is set to rival

the giant La Machine spider that formed one of the highlights of Liverpool's Capital of
Culture year in 2008.

It will be one of several events taking place throughout the city to commemorate

the centenary, which include a production at the Liverpool Empire and a new
exhibition at the Merseyside Maritime Museum.

Titanic street art exhibition planned for 2012

Computer-generated

image of the marina

at the proposed

Wirral Waters