Boarded up Sunderland or is it Booming?

[Shandy drinker]

Jam jute and journalism

 

[Inter the pub]

I was in Watford town centre last August and the place is absolutely thriving compared to Sunderland.

Likewise, not on your list but I was in Dundee city centre in May: it has ten major tourist attractions, five video games companies and two universities in the city centre.

Sunderland's wealth (Uni aside) is from out of town factories and business parks. The footfall in the city centre (match day aside) is council workers, the homeless and students. Who is going to buy the fancy eco homes they're building on the Civic Centre site if you have to drive out of town to work? The city centre needs an injection of sustainable wealth, e.g.: convert disused retail units into offices and charge low rent to any company locating from outside the NE.

That's the plan!

Dennis the menace statue for one
People love putting Sunderland down

You are spot on there mind.
It's shameful at times.

 

[smoker]

I was there about 2 years back & apart from the bit around the V&A, the rest of the city centre is a dump. Not sure what the 10 major attractions are, I can only think of 2

Dundee:
V&A
Discovery
Verdant Works
HMS Unicorn
Science Centre
Art Gallery & Museum
Broughty Castle
Botanic Garden
DCA
Camperdown Park

Sunderland:
Museum and Art Gallery/Winter Gdns
Glass Centre
Culture House when it opens
.....?

Dennis the menace statue for one
People love putting Sunderland down

*Desperate Dan.

 

[Stubbs ftm]

Dundee:
V&A
Discovery
Verdant Works
HMS Unicorn
Science Centre
Art Gallery & Museum
Broughty Castle
Botanic Garden
DCA
Camperdown Park

Sunderland:
Museum and Art Gallery/Winter Gdns
Glass Centre
Culture House when it opens
.....?

Dave the rave
Jackie whites
The bag man

 

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Dundee:
V&A
Discovery
Verdant Works
HMS Unicorn
Science Centre
Art Gallery & Museum
Broughty Castle
Botanic Garden
DCA
Camperdown Park

Sunderland:
Museum and Art Gallery/Winter Gdns
Glass Centre
Culture House when it opens
.....?

Transport museum
Washington wetlands
Washington old hall
Hylton Castle
Penshaw monument

Are on par with some of the above

 

[James]

Barren 'shopping centre with no shops' was once biggest in UK

Inside the Runcorn shopping centre which was once Europe's largest mall but now it's full of empty shops

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

Saw this for Liverpool and shows its an issue for bigger cities then us

Runcorn isn't Liverpool to be fair, it's a small deprived town on the other side of the River Mersey.

 

[Shandy drinker]

Transport museum
Washington wetlands
Washington old hall
Hylton Castle
Penshaw monument

Are on par with some of the above

St. Peter’s church
St. Andrews
Holy trinity

 

[SAFC Wilks]

Dundee:
V&A
Discovery
Verdant Works
HMS Unicorn
Science Centre
Art Gallery & Museum
Broughty Castle
Botanic Garden
DCA
Camperdown Park

Sunderland:
Museum and Art Gallery/Winter Gdns
Glass Centre
Culture House when it opens
.....?

*Desperate Dan.

Empire theatre surely considering the shows it gets nowadays.