New nerve centre will pave way for one billion pound paradise shops
3 Nov 2007
The big countdown to the opening of Europes biggest retail and leisure scheme is to be given a boost this month with the launch of a new nerve centre.
Grosvenor’s information centre, in Lord Street, which houses models of the £1bn Paradise Street Project, is to be re-branded as the Liverpool One Information Centre.
The centre will also act as a nerve centre for one of the biggest ever recruitment drives in Liverpool, helping to fill the 5,000 jobs created in shops, bars, restaur-ants and leisure out- lets. A Shop for Jobs unit will be based in the centre to give information about vacancies in and around the city centre.
Next spring – some time in May – the two anchor stores, John Lewis and Deben- hams, will open along with dozens of new shops.
Several months later, Chavasse Park and the restaurant terrace will open.
Just a few weeks ago, more than 3500 people attended a recruitment event at the Debenhams store, a business new to Liverpool. Recruit- ment events have also been held at city Job- centres. Grosvenor’s Liverpool One comp- any is itself planning to hire 180 people to work on the running of the 43 acre city centre site.
Jacqui Pemberton, regional business manager at Debenhams, said the company was eager to hire as many local people as possible for its new Lord Street store.
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