VINCI to build Liverpool’s Pall Mall
Kier Property and the city council have found their main contractor for the highly anticipated, 111,000 sq ft office block off Bixteth Walk.
VINCI Building has been selected as the preferred bidder for a design-and-build contract for £55m Pall Mall. When complete, the office building will be net zero carbon-enabled, host a series of amenity spaces (including a rooftop terrace), and include ground floor retail space and a half-acre park.
Kier Property is the delivery partner for One Pall Mall. Senior development director Mark Robinson described the appointment of VINCI as “a significant achievement and a testament to the strength of our shared vision for Liverpool’s future.
“We are proud to continue working together to bring forward an exciting and transformative development that will help establish this scheme as Liverpool’s premier commercial destination,” Robinson said.
“By creating a vibrant place for businesses, investment and innovation, we are supporting long-term economic growth and delivering lasting benefits for the city, its communities and future generations.”
VINCI Building regional director Gary Hughes added: “This represents a transformative investment in Liverpool’s Commercial Business District.
“Being based within the Liverpool City Region, we’re proud to bring the strength of our regional presence to the scheme through our skilled workforce, established local supply chain and strong long-standing connections across Merseyside.
“This will certainly enable us to deliver meaningful social and economic value alongside high-quality, sustainable development that reflects the city’s ambition and growth.”
Support for One Pall Mall has come from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s £2bn investment fund. The city council has also provided a £15m grant to get the development going and agreed a rent guarantee scheme.
Reflecting on the scheme’s importance, Liverpool City Council Leader Cllr Liam Robinson said: “Pall Mall is a transformational opportunity for Liverpool and a key part of our ambition to deliver the high-quality commercial space needed to support a modern, growing economy.
“This scheme will play a major role in attracting new businesses, supporting job creation and reinforcing Liverpool’s position as a leading destination for investment.”
A start on site date has not yet been announced.
The project team for Pall Mall includes WSP, Allies and Morrison, Stantec, and Re-form. The agents for One Pall Mall are Colliers and Worthington Owen.
Seems to get smaller with every new renders. Similar to Knowledge Quarter. Stumpyville.
By Anonymous
Let’s get it straight, in any other major city this would be regarded as a small scale infill scheme. The time it has taken to get to this stage reflects really poorly on the public sector partners involved.
By Anonymous
It might go on site before the decade is over
By Anonymous
I hope it never happens.
By Bixteth boy
@Anonymous 1:03pm, did you mean “in any major city” rather than “in any other major city”?!
By Idi
Its good news, but the scheme just lacks ambition. It should be denser and with a few tower elements to really make a long lasting impactful change
By GetItBuilt!
All this for just the first building
By Anonymous
LCC are a complete and utter useless entity
By BORING
Sorry but this looks boring and cheap…! Surely we can do better than this?
By JB
@ Bixteth Boy 2.15pm, have you ever thought about being an ambassador for a resurgent, vibrant, and economically successful, future Liverpool, or would that be a bridge too far for a merchant of gloom like yourself.
By Anonymous
Cant we have building that give the WOW factor when you look at it, our the people who grant these building qualified
By PAUL STEAD
Fantastic news and delighted to see commitment from Liverpool City Council and Kier Developments. Let’s celebrate speculative office development being committed to. Jobs, commitment and investment in Liverpool!
By Mark
Restrained, handsome and inoffensive. It’s just a personal opinion, but I think Liverpool is gaining a better urban landscape by developing on a human scale, even if the buildings are less individually spectacular.
By Anonymous
Don’t really get the knee jerk criticism of the design, the architects, Allies and Morrison, are a well respected, renowned, outfit who have done great work , for example at Kings Cross.
We need to get this thing built and trust the other phases follow.
By Anonymous
Why has it taken over a decade for a 9 storey office in central Liverpool to get to this stage and probably not delivered before 2030?
By Anonymous
Great to see Allies and Morrison working in the city. A top tier architectural practice who will certainly produce a quality building.
By Anonymous
Horrible modernity
By Bixteth boy
Its taken so long that its going to look dated before its even built. I would have expected better from a fancy brand name architects.
By Dr Ian Buildings
Surely that photo is of Bixteth Street, not Pall Mall. Just look at the adjacent buildings and the position of the Littlewoods building across the end of it.
It’s such a shame that the parkland which once occupied the site behind the old Exchange Station on completion of what was then known as Mercury Court, was ripped up. Why, for goodness sake?
By Rapsgaliwn
@ Bixteth Boy 8am, yes they could’ve used some wood from broken down pallets, or dry stone walling, you don’t like modern, what do you live in then, a cave.
Modern is the now and not the dark ages.
By Anonymous