Dan Whelan
Developer Augur Group has hired architect 3DReid to draw up plans for 200 homes as part of the wider mixed-use scheme, reducing the amount of retail space previously proposed.
However, a planning application for the Circus, to be located on land behind the Lewis’s Building off Bold Street and next to Liverpool Central Station, is not expected until next year, Augur’s chief executive Simon Mann told
Place North West.
Mann added that the 275,000 sq ft of retail space proposed when the Circus was first unveiled in 2018 would be significantly reduced to make way for the residential scheme, which is to feature upwards of 200 units.
Dan Whelan
Augur Group has won approval to expand the types of potential tenants for the 400,000 sq ft Liverpool building as part of its strategy to redevelop the grade two-listed former department store into a mixed-use scheme.
Liverpool City Council has granted the developer permission to increase the flexibility of uses within the Lewis’s Building on Renshaw Street. Augur wants to move away from retail by allowing space within the upper ground, first and second floors to be used as offices or by leisure operators.
The revamp of the Lewis’s Building, which Augur bought in 2017, forms part of the developer’s wider The Circus scheme that will see vacant land to the rear of the building next to Central Station redeveloped to provide 70,000 sq ft of offices and 275,000 sq ft of retail space.
Italian and Korean restaurants among new openings at Liverpool Central
The new tenants mean the shopping centre will be fully occupied
16:04, 21 JAN 2021
The new openings mean the shopping centre above the station will be fully occupied. (Image: Liverpool Echo)
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Liverpool Central is set to gain four new shops as a push to regenerate the shopping centre above the station continues.