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Liverpool Shopping Park is an out of town retail park located in Edge Lane, Liverpool, England. It is the biggest retail park in Liverpool, overtaking the New Mersey Retail Park in Speke (473,000 sq ft (43,900 m2)), and has the world's largest Liver Bird at 30 ft (9.1 m) and made of Meccano.
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| Location | Liverpool, England |
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| Coordinates | 53°24′35″N 2°55′33″W / 53.4096°N 2.9257°W |
| Address | Edge Lane |
| Owner | Albert Gubay |
| Total retail floor area | 727,000 sq ft (67,500 m2)[1] |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | liverpoolshoppingpark |
History
editOpened in 1991 as Edge Lane Retail Park, it had an MGM cinema, renamed Virgin in 1995, then UGC in 1999 then Cineworld in 2005. Comet, Land of Leather, JJB Sports, Carpet Right and Frankie and Benny's and Fatty Arbuckle's also operated. The site began redevelopment in the mid-2010s and Phase 1 of the new shopping park opened in November 2017.
Stores
editBelow are just a few of the many stores - as of March 2018 the shopping centre contains:
Costa Coffee, Next, Boots
A planned 41 retail units are available.
Phase 1
editOctober 2017 M&S Food Hall, Boots, H&M, Superdrug, Smyths Toys, TK Maxx, JD Sports, Foot Asylum, River Island, Regatta and fashion retailer Outfit, whose brands include Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins in selected stores.[2]
Phase 2
editEight more retailers Regatta, Superdrug, The Works and Footasylum/DROME
Phase 3 (2018)
editWilko, Next, Clarks and Greggs followed in early 2018.[3]
All of the new retailers took space in the Western Quarter, the distinctive 'horseshoe' of 17 retail units that front onto Edge Lane. Greggs took a unit close to the park's main entrance, near to Chiquito and Subway.
Transport
editThe shopping centre is located in close proximity to the local railway station and bus interchange.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Liverpool Shopping Park". Revocommunity.org. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ Johnson, Mark (20 October 2017). "All the new shops and restaurants coming to Edge Lane retail park". liverpoolecho.
- ^ "Eight more retailers check in at Liverpool Shopping Park". Insider Media Ltd.