Liverpool Shopping Park

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.

Liverpool Shopping Park
LocationLiverpool, England
Coordinates53.4096°N 2.9257°W / 53.4096; -2.9257
AddressEdge Lane
OwnerAlbert Gubay
Total retail floor area727,000 sq ft (67,500 m2)[1]
No. of floors1
Websiteliverpoolshoppingpark.co.uk

History

Opened 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

Below 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

October 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

Eight more retailers Regatta, Superdrug, The Works and Footasylum/DROME

Phase 3 (2018)

Wilko, 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.

See also

References
  1. "Liverpool Shopping Park". Revocommunity.org. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
  2. Johnson, Mark (20 October 2017). "All the new shops and restaurants coming to Edge Lane retail park". liverpoolecho.
  3. Ltd, Insider Media. "Eight more retailers check in at Liverpool Shopping Park". Insider Media Ltd.
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