Contractor named for Everyman rebuild
Belfast-based builder Gilbert Ash NI has won the hotly contested tender with the Liverpool and Merseyside Theatres Trust to build the new Everyman theatre on Hope Street.
The previous home of the much-loved theatre was built as a Methodist meeting hall and only 6,000 sq ft in size. The old Everyman closed in July 2011 and was demolished to make way for a new three-storey 15,500 sq ft purpose-built facility.
There will be a 400-seat theatre with two levels of seating, a recreation of the Everyman Bistro, a youth theatre, front-of-house catering and bar, and rehearsal space and workshops.
The £11.8m contract will see Gilbert Ash NI create the new theatre designed by specialist architects Haworth Tompkins. The new theatre is due to open in 2013.
The scheme on Hope Street is part of a £28m project by the theatre trust which includes work at the Playhouse theatre in Williamson Square which it also operates. Funding was provided by Arts Council England, £16.8m, North West Development Agency, £2.5m, European Regional Development Fund, £5.9m, and other public and private bodies.
So much for localism!
By WB
WB I agree! And yet there is so much talk about the Pool being a closed shop to ‘outside firms’ and looking after their own – if you dont have a Liverpool office then you dont get work in the city its nonsense!
By Sharon Donga
Lets hope the foods better!
By Bob Dawson
Why, in all that is holy, would you produce a CGI image and retain the roadworks in the background???
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