Department store on Hereford's multi-million pound complex on schedule (From Hereford Times)
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Department store on Hereford's multi-million pound complex on schedule
8:00am Friday 8th March 2013 in News
How the Old Livestock Market will look when finished
DEVELOPERS behind Hereford’s multi-million pound retail complex are on course to hand over to the scheme’s landmark department store later this year.
Project manager George Ray says Debenhams will move onto the Old Livestock Market (OLM) in October to begin its six month shopfitting.
The three-storey branch is a linchpin of the £90 million scheme, set to feature a multi-screen Odeon cinema, Waitrose supermarket, Next clothing shop and about 20 further shops and seven restaurants.
Developers say hundreds of new jobs will be created.
Construction work began last month following the demolition of the former cattle market buildings and Garrick House council offices. The whole development is set to be up and running by Easter 2014.
“Progress on site has been great,” said George Ray, project manager with Sir Robert McAlpine.
“It’s an exciting time for the construction team as the development really starts to take shape over the coming months, and Herefordians will begin to see buildings erected in the spring.”
He said the concrete cores of shops and restaurants would become visible in the coming weeks.
After Easter, the steel structures of each building will be visible before half a million bricks are laid in late spring.
Comments(26)
silentbull
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9:33am Fri 8 Mar 13
But my worry is will anybody turn up???
Without 'car parks' how are the council planning on attracting people from outside the city to shop here??
fmrbill
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10:53am Fri 8 Mar 13
courtesycall
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10:57am Fri 8 Mar 13
The only difference is in presentation
mizza21
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11:15am Fri 8 Mar 13
fmrbill I don't think the Maylords os a fair comparison, but after the initial rush for a few months I'm not sure Hereford has sufficient influx to justify a three story Debenhams and all the other units.
I may well go to the cinema but like a lot of folk in Herefordshire I prefer not to use the horrendous chain stores with their mass produced far eastern imports.
Yet again the Hereford Times has covered this press release from the developers with the aplomb and outdone itself in presenting a balanced story.
bobby47
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12:33pm Fri 8 Mar 13
It wouldn't surprise me to hear he delivered the Ad Mags.
There's no escaping his bloody presence or his stranglehold on all our lives. He's so relentless. Just when we've swallowed yet another bucket of bovine urine, he comes up with something else that makes you want to open a bloody vein.
This is an extraordinary man with huge reserves of will power, inner strength and thick skin and anyone who dreams hell go away anytime soon is an optimistic ninny.
And what happens when this build is near to completion?
I'll tell you. He'll have the place named after him. It'll be Jarvis Way, Jarvis Avenue and when the bloody monsoon season arrives and Merton Meadow is under water because of the blocked bloody vegetation, it'll be Jarvis bloody Lake.
And as for the lovely picture? There's no denying its a lovely picture. You'd be a fool so say otherwise but, I see no shell suits, nobody walking a rabid pit bull and there's no sign of black billowing clouds full of more bloody water.
We are bloody doomed and our end is bloody nigh! He won't go! He will never go! And anyone who thinks otherwise disagrees with me.
William Rudd
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12:50pm Fri 8 Mar 13
600 spaces at Multi story,
600 car park spaces on the development and a roof top car park on Debenhams/Waitrose.
TwoWheelsGood
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2:10pm Fri 8 Mar 13
mizza21
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2:57pm Fri 8 Mar 13
I know you refer to it as a flood plain, but it seems a bit a way off from the river to be flooded.
Perhaps the HT has some research in their, no doubt extensive, archives which they could produce to suggest the likelihood of flooding on this site.
I know I'd be interested, possibly even interested enough to purchase a copy at it competitive new price of a paltry £2.60
Well, the Multi storey is going to be "up on the blocks" for a while while it's tarted up and underpinned, just like the wife. (Oh god I'm so sorry I just couldn't stop meself)
TwoWheelsGood
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3:50pm Fri 8 Mar 13
mizza21
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4:36pm Fri 8 Mar 13
I will still get out a handful of coins for the HT though.
I'm not sure what I'd do if I couldn't read the fascinating editorials and gripping reports of local news and events.
A bargain surely at just £3
littlewhitebull
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9:19pm Fri 8 Mar 13
What's going on? The boss only gave me £1.20 to buy one last Thursday - I'm getting very confused. Have I been swindled?
I've had enough - off to pub.
dippyhippy
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10:36pm Fri 8 Mar 13
Bobby,loved your post from earlier,just one thing, the phrase you used "optimistic ninny!" That wouldn't be me by any chance would it???!!!I
I like it - so much in fact that I would like it included in my epitaph !!
Seriously though, I would much prefer to keep 14 Lime Trees,than gain one department store,some things are irreplaceable.....th
is council know the value of nothing.
bobby47
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12:23pm Sat 9 Mar 13
bobby47
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12:57pm Sat 9 Mar 13
I'll be damned if I sit back silently and have my good name dragged through the Merton Mud and be accused of embellishing an embellishment.
There's only one thing worse than the whole embellishing issue and that's a bloody Flood Deny'er.
And this, from a man who'd have us sat in his Ark as we floated past the Treacle Mine.
False Prophet!!!
dippyhippy
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2:23pm Sun 10 Mar 13
timistic Ninny"has such a lovely ring to it!! I felt sure it was the perfect description of me!
Totally agree with the above post-and to think,we were all lining up for a place on that ark......
mizza21
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10:22pm Sun 10 Mar 13
At least now I know where to put my Ark.
Merton Meadow seems appropriate and when the Yazor Brook does overflow it's banks you're all invitied.
I shall require the services of the Toad sexers too, if I am not to end up with an 2 males or 2 females.
Perish the thought..
Biomech
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12:58am Mon 11 Mar 13
If I were a property developer/investor, I certainly wouldn't be buying a place on Merton Meadow with its history of flooding. Not as things are now at least
Grid Knocker
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7:52am Mon 11 Mar 13
It's an open secret in the world of retailing that the big high street names get their units fitted out for them foc. So some of that £500K 'bung' which Stanhope squeezed out of Johhn Jarvis (like pips out of a lemon) will be used for this work. And whose money was it you gave away Councillor Jarvis? Ours!
whitecross willy
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8:36am Mon 11 Mar 13
bobby47
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12:35pm Mon 11 Mar 13
It's the sort of Tarmac you see, examine and mutter, 'Goodness what a lovely bit of tarmac.'
I mean, you'd be a fool to think otherwise. It's been a long time since I've seen Tarmac like this and after viewing this lovely piece of Tarmac, you'll carry away with you one sure certainty.
Bloody Amey didn't lay it!
Biomech
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1:37pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Biomech
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1:38pm Mon 11 Mar 13
I guess when they fight for a "Free Press", it's only applicable to themselves.
littlewhitebull
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7:34pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Sorry, I need to keep mentioning it in the vain hope that the HT will explain this increase. Other newspapers usually say: "we regret to say that from next week, our cover price will increase from £1.00 to £1.10" etc.
whitecross willy
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10:51pm Mon 11 Mar 13
Grid Knocker
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9:00am Tue 26 Mar 13
TwoWheelsGood says...
9:05am Fri 8 Mar 13