Comments on: Lewis’s to make way for leisure/lifestyle/retail hub/haven/destination thing

By: Leslie Green

Leslie Green — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:29:05 +0000

Very sad to see that the old Lewis`s is finally closing down,going the same way as all the other grand old fashioned shops the likes of Owen Owen, C&A, Littlewoods, Blacklers and of course good old Woolworths.
Never to see the likes again.But never forgotten by all the people who worked in all these once famous shops!

By: ben

ben — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:52:37 +0000

I think it is such a sad loss to the city, and infact the whole of the North of England that Lewis’s is closing – It already contains lots of local family independent run brands such as F.A.B@Lewis’s on its 1st floor – What will happen to them?

By: Dickie Lewis plans afoot already

Dickie Lewis plans afoot already — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:44:21 +0000

[...] on whether the shop itself will be ‘resurgent’ in the new development, but plenty of comment, so I’ll leave to to pop over to those sites for a [...]

By: Andrew Beattie

Andrew Beattie — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:23:46 +0000

Well I’m fairy excited to be honest.

One area, for me at least, that Liverpool lacks is choice and I think developments like this, within reason, show the progress the City Centre is making in terms of offering something a little different even if the different is just a different location within the City Centre.

What it absolutely has to get right is the choice of stores, coffee shops, restaurants it has there for it to compliment what we already have in Liverpool One, et cetera. I’d put good money on there being a massive Tesco in there though regardless of what else is there.

By: david

david — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:53:20 +0000

I don’t mind Liverpool One at all. But this is what Central Village should take note of:

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/features/22691/jane-jacobs-101/2.html

By: Robin Brown

Robin Brown — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:35:15 +0000

Indeed. I’m not one of those farts that pointlessly decries everything new, but I don’t sense that this is anything other than another generic ‘urban oasis’. And I’m fed up of these indentikit developments.

I only go along with Liverpool One on the balance of probability that its good points outweight the negative.

By: david

david — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:28:12 +0000

‘Village’ not ‘Park’

By: david

david — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:25:49 +0000

the only way to compete is to offer something genuinely different – other cities do it by having clearly demarcated zones (low rent areas like MCRs Northern Quarter, or Borough Market in London, rubbing shoulders with the swisher Swarovski-type stores) if Central Park is just another me-too array of chain stores and coffee shops, you can kiss goodbye to the character of Liverpool. Lewis’s, of course, was a shadow of its former self (they should never have got shut of the food hall) but I fear its replacement will be even more soulless. Hope not.