BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY! Re-brand for historic city quarter.Byline: CATHERINE JONES Catherine Jones is an English television news journalist, currently a reporter and presenter on Five. Born on 12th January 1971 and brought up in Essex, Jones started her professional career in the newsroom of Buckinghamshire based local radio station Mix 96 in 1994. PLANS are being drawn up to re-brand the historic Ropewalks area as Liverpool's independent quarter. Shop and arts venue owners met this week to discuss ways to promote the uniqueness of the city centre area. Consultants will be asked to come up with proposals to give the Ropewalks its own specific feel including signposting and a dedicated website. There are also ambitious proposals to expand the world class FACT centre out from its home in Wood Street as a major part of the area's future. Matt Biagetti of Liverpool Vision, which is working with businesses in the Ropewalks, said: "It's looking at how the area should be marketed, what sort of identity it should have, how it should attract visitors and businesses and develop for the future. "It's a unique area - there's nowhere else like it in the city and we want it to be recognised." FACT, one of the leading creative technology centres in the world, has ambitions to create a hi-tech "gateway" wall to link it to the main thoroughfare THOROUGHFARE. A street or way so open that one can go through and get out of it without returning. It differs from a cul de sac, (q.v.) which is open only at one end. 2. Whether a street which is not a thoroughfare is a highway, seems not fully settled. of Bold Street. Chief executive Mike Stubbs said the plan was likely to cost around pounds 600,000. He added: "FACT is an award-winning, iconic i·con·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or having the character of an icon. 2. Having a conventional formulaic style. Used of certain memorial statues and busts. piece of architecture in Liverpool and should have been much closer to Bold Street which is the unsung jewel in the crown of Liverpool. This isn't just about FACT being more visible, it's also about improving the Ropewalks district, making it a Bohemian, independent village." Dick Mawdsley, director of the Utility stores and chairman of the Ropewalks Stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. Forum, said: "It's really exciting." CAPTION(S): AMBITIOUS: Fact aims to create a hi-tech gateway |
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