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Drinking in Sunderland City Centre - restored


Zimba said:
There's more than just Newcastle though, I'm talking about outside of Sunderland here so if I was going to go to Sunderland I'd have to go out of the way to get there but even the likes of Washington are closer to Newcastle than Sunderland and many other places.

I think the point I was trying to make was Sunderland doesn't really have a destination for people really choose it over anywhere else; the art gallery / museum isn't great, there's no real standout restaurants (there's better ones at Whitley for example), the Theatre is fine - credit due, there's loads of cinemas around, the Bridges is horrid and needs demolished, casino's are something I'd rather avoid etc.

Taking Newcastle out, I could go to Whitley Bay and Silverlink both close to here and get a similar offering than the whole of Sunderland with Tynemouth another 5 minutes away and I've got 2x as much as Sunderland and they're commuter towns or a retail park. Sunderland should at least have one thing above them all and it really sadly doesn't, the bar scene is alright though in general. Tynemouth has 3 things over Sunderland though with a mini golf, aquarium and a priory though (admit the last you can't just built).
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Mini golf in the bowling alley sunshine, ya talking shite
 
A more diverse social scene requires increased footfall with money to burn. The answer is city centre employment. The horse has bolted but attracting the likes of EDF & Barclays into the city centre instead of Doxford International could have been a blue print for economic revival, and something i'd have been happy to subsidise through council tax.

Instead the council focussed on vanity projects like "The Ambit" and "Nice one Sunderland" TV campaign. A truly disastrous period , and some introspection and reflection is much needed by the council and electorate.
 
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Helvellyn said:
A more diverse social scene requires increased footfall with money to burn. The answer is city centre employment. The horse has bolted but attracting the likes of EDF & Barclays into the city centre instead of Doxford International could have been a blue print for economic revival, and something i'd have been happy to subsidise through council tax.

Instead the council focussed on vanity projects like "The Ambit" and "Nice one Sunderland" TV campaign. A truly disastrous period , and some introspection and reflection is much needed by the council and electorate.
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Change the record man
Ambit was 20 year ago
There was no suitable space or offices for doxford type economy and businesses at the time wanted easy access to transport network
avacado said:
Kuwaiti if you please.
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Catarrh?
 
Chatty83 said:
Was down the new Pop Recs tonight. Gonna be a class place that once it opens properly, stage is class, will be mint for gigs and has a nice layout between venue and cafe. Another cool place to add to the growing list.
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Midnight pizza cru are going to do something there I heard
 
1more said:
Midnight pizza cru are going to do something there I heard
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That'd be fab like. They need to sort that end of town out a little bit but has potential there too, some cool little places just behind Sunniside but also all the wellness centres so loads of junkies hanging about off their faces.
 
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