My cycling day ended where it began – back at the A Foundation.
That evening a journalist told me that the A Foundation’s location was a strategic decision – to stretch the city limits into the far corner of the Baltic Triangle.
Nice thought… but it’s not the attraction of art that will stretch the city limits but investment from the private sector. Art will enhance the cultural credibility.
Watch the Triangle…
It’s a prime location –
Of my many miles of dock road travels this are is noticeably different. Easy walking distance to the heart of the city centre, the Albert Dock, both Cathedrals, and the soon to be Paradise shopping complex.
A Liverpool based artist and colleague told me she had tried (in vane) to buy one of the warehouses. Her vision was to create an artist live-work space. But the developers got the lot (double entendre)
Check out Billion pound village for Baltic Triangle at

www.residentialreview.co.uk/news_story.asp?id=196

“Great! more trendy apartments way out of local people’s price range. No doubt gated off to keep undesirables out. Seems the regeneration of Liverpool is very selective benefiting the few. I am starting to feel the 08 Culture bid is becoming a poison chalice.”
Not about the Baltic Triangle, but a poignant comment regarding regeneration in the city by Lance Rock posted on

http://www.bbc.co.uk:80/liverpool/content/articles/2005/10/29/regeneration_littlewoods_feature.shtml


Cycling around Liverpool evaluating Brownfield sites, it is difficult to extract the ecological without becoming acutely aware of the sociological.
From Garston to Canada Docks, it appears that Brownfield wildlife is endangered – not unexpected as Brownfields are transient spaces, but scarily it appears that people communities are under threat of being bulldozed out too.

Regeneration is looking like a double-edged sword. Is the reality that Liverpool’s citizens are being squeezed out? I keep hearing the term ‘investment property’. I’m not entirely sure what it means – but it doesn’t sound very sociable or neighbourly…
And if people communities are being disrupted and transposed – what chance for the wildlife communities?