I'm pretty sure if the car park is going so are the courts
I presume police station at the same time?
I am generally very upbeat regarding these improvements projects but I've always been really sceptical about this Central car park scheme. Doesnt seem to me that we have seen any money from the private developers yet.
It's been a while so I can't remember exactly what was said, but there was some sort of online discussion about it a while back, a Q&A and it had some information about the project that was interesting.
I think it what this article refers to but I don't think the stream is available anymore, which is a shame as it may have contained useful insight and info.
The public is being invited to have their say on the first part of plans for a £300m entertainment complex in the heart of Blackpool.
www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk
It mentions the complex’s backers, Nikal Ltd and Media Invest Entertainment and the plans were discussed on that stream, but obviously that was a few years back.
If they are knocking then down hopefully that indicates something happening, then again they aren't used really and needs levelling anyway.
The enabling phase was the car park with the heritage quarter to follow.
There's no reason to wait now, the car park is done, they should be doing the building next to it into the food hall and knocking down the courts and car park ready for the next phase.
The new site for the courts is approved and the old ones not in use anyway.
The Blackpool central fb page was put up a while back and has been steadily pumping out Blackpool related posts, but nothing on the project in a while.
It might just look like a huge hole - but the site being dug out in Central Car Park represents a historic milestone for Blackpool.
www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk
"Once the car park is open, the next phase will be the conversion of buildings on Central Drive into a Heritage Quarter and construction of a public square.
Darren Jones, development director at Nikal which is behind the project, said the focus is now on unlocking the rest of the site.
He said: "We are working with our technical design teams on future phases including the Heritage Quarter.
"This includes getting everything priced, and having the funding in place."
He said funding would be sought for each part of the scheme, but Nikal was "very confident" of investors coming forward given the strong level of interest there had been in funding the car park
Mr Jones added: "When you are getting 16 to 18 million visitors a year as Blackpool does, it's a place of interest.
We are working with both the council and MPs to deliver as soon as we can, we have got advisers regarding our letting strategy and in terms of what will go into the development.
"We are cracking on and doing something very different. People have been waiting a long time, over 50 years, for something to happen on this site."
Obviously this article was a couple of years back, but it now get over 20 million visitors so should be even more attractive a proposition, although as we know costs on such projects do cost more now.