citybythesea
Winger
Well yes, but there has to be a certain amount of speculation. Otherwise cities the world over would never develop, people speculate on new projects. The gateshead quayside e.g. looked very very different 25-30 years ago and they speculated on some fabulous developments there, prior to that it was a deindustrialised riversideUltimately it comes down to demand and viability, and I suppose what people deem as ambitious - however there is no point having plans that can’t be delivered. Hopefully this is just the first phase of a series of interventions in the city.
According to wiki Doxford international first building were complete in 1992, so must have been in development in the mid/late 80’s. Also the site was designated as an enterprise zone I think to attract private sector developers to construct them and obviously had business incentives. As I mentioned before at that time I’m not sure what land would have been available?
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