YO
The Site Of Costco should Be cleared and Turned into a World Showcase (Like the One a Disn*ys Epc*t - cannot say it the Disn*y Police Will Get Me)
with a Huge Tower in the Middle , 60 storys, as a Hilton Hotel. and a Underground car park.
Thanks
Liam Kinsella

I didnt Lose my mind i sold it on Ebay

When those buildings were built, Liverpool was grateful to get any development. They look totally wrong in that area. We may hear soon of a plan to develop the King Edward pub site with a tower rumoured to be as high as 48 storeys - no firm announcement yet.

When those buildings were built, Liverpool was grateful to get any development. They look totally wrong in that area. We may hear soon of a plan to develop the King Edward pub site with a tower rumoured to be as high as 48 storeys - no firm announcement yet.


Fingers crossed. :cheers:

When those buildings were built, Liverpool was grateful to get any development. They look totally wrong in that area. We may hear soon of a plan to develop the King Edward pub site with a tower rumoured to be as high as 48 storeys - no firm announcement yet.
When you look at most developments in the city centre they are leasehold 99, 125 years etc, so Costco's site may be leasehold also, (how many years..?). If the council/developer wants to, i'm sure they could come to an agreement for an alternative site for Costco near to the city centre, but in a more industrial/trading estate.

As for the Toys'R'us are'nt they going bankrupt, that'll be one space cleared up.

We may hear soon of a plan to develop the King Edward pub site with a tower rumoured to be as high as 48 storeys - no firm announcement yet.
Martin, looking forward to it. Do you think it'll affect the low res businesses nearby? King Eddy's beyond repair. Knock it down or do the more favoured way in Liverpool to get rid of a pub - Torch It - :)

I think that King Eddies has been torched already. By the way, I haven't heard anything recent about this site but this tower proposal (with various heights) has been around for some time.

I think Toys R Us Have been taken Over by a new Group of Investors

IT IS TRUE

US retailer Toys R Us has been bought by an investment group of three firms for $6.6bn (£3.4bn).
The group comprises Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), Bain Capital and Vornado Realty Trust, who will each hold an equal stake in the company.

The three are buying the whole of Toys R Us, which includes the toy retail chain and Babies R Us stores.

The move is a surprise as originally the retailer had only planned to sell its toy business.

'Bidding competition'

"We are pleased to announce this transaction, which brings our strategic review to a very successful conclusion," said John Eyler, chairman and chief executive of Toys R Us.

"There was competition among bidders during the review process, and the acquisition price reflects the compelling value of the global Toys R Us and Babies R Us operations and assets."

Toys R Us was due to announce fourth quarter and full-year 2004 results this week, but on Tuesday announced it had delayed them "to evaluate the change in (its) accounting for leases and leasehold improvements".

The consortium is taking on Toys R Us' debt, and each of the investors will own equal stakes in the company upon completion of the transaction.

The deal needs to be cleared by regulators and Toys R Us shareholders, and is expected to be completed by July.

I must be the only one on here who'd like to see that pub refurbished as I think it's a lovely building.

I seem to remember somone in property management telling me that both are on a relatively short term lease (15-20 years) . If so that would be surprisingly farsighted of the landowners given the rise in land values in that area. Costsco and Toys R us are unlikely to stay depending on when the rent review period is as they need low cost premises.

I seem to remember somone in property management telling me that both are on a relatively short term lease (15-20 years) . If so that would be surprisingly farsighted of the landowners given the rise in land values in that area. Costsco and Toys R us are unlikely to stay depending on when the rent review period is as they need low cost premises.

So it wont be too long when they could possibly looking at developing a new use for the site!

So it wont be too long when they could possibly looking at developing a new use for the site!

Hopefully. :cheers:

Hopefully. :cheers:
Then Toys'R'us can move to a large city centre retail site, and Costco can move north up Great Howard St/Derby Rd. :)

I also would like to see King eddy's pub renovated and the tower built on the Costco/Toys'R'us site, but dont know if a pub would be viable.
Or maybe the tower could incorporate the pub at it's base, in a novel/ingenious sort of way...!

I would Like Disney to get a more Magical buiding and Toys r Us to go into Disney and costco to Move in To Aintree - The Home of the grand national
Thanks
Liam

I like the Idea of Encorperating the pub perhaps
as A Bar & Grill like Blue or Est Est Est
I doubt a Pub would be viable.
Thanks
Liam

Toys R Us should be in Aintree/Speke or the main retail streets.

Costco is a different beast all together and it's current location is starting to look crazy, but only beacuse the city is growing and is actually bordering that site now. 10 years ago it was well out of town and some of the only investment going in.

As for the pub - pull it down and build on it. It may have functioned when the street plan was in place but that site needs something on a much bigger scale to sustain it.

walking from Toys R Us into Old Hall Street is like crossing the M6 on foot and then having to cross the M62.

but people have to agree with me diney shold have a more magical Building

Disney is crap.

^Agreed!

yer but i like the idea of an upside down building

What about a giant mousehole shaped building with Mickey poking his head out, and a giant mousetrap with a bit of cheese on it, on the pavement. :rofl::hahaha:

Or a Huge castle

but people have to agree with me diney shold have a more magical Building


why??

How's about a Lenin-style mausoleum, containing the embalmed corpse of Walt Disney. As he's pickled and preserved already, the USP of the Disney-tomb can be that when you enter the building, along with the outsized Mickey, Donald, etc. roaming around the park you can meet the man himself.

Modern robotics technology could be used to reanimate his cadaver and a built in speech generator linked by radio to an operator could allow you to speak to kindly old Walt himself. His animotronic capablilities could allow him to get up to all kinds of amusing scrapes with Mickey and the crew to the delight of visiting children.

Just an idea, like.

Better than the shitty castle one Aled. :cheers: