The shots of the staff, particularly, are wonderful portraits of proud employees, and the information on how long many of them spent working at the department store testament to how well Lewis’s treated its employees.
Lewis’s to make way for leisure/lifestyle/retail hub/haven/destination thing
Merepark’s Central Village, which will include the Lewis’s building, is set to redress the cash drain towards Liverpool One, but it’s not clear to me whether the city can support so many different retail/leisure/lifestyle hubs – is there genuinely enough cash being spent to go around Liverpool’s various city-centre areas?
Lewis's redevelopment to form city's 83rd retail and leisure destination
Depending on how you greet news of more bars, hotels, shops and generic retail space in the city, the Lewis’s redevelopment is probably either good or rather indifferent news.