Urban renewal

Join us for our Slugger Sessions on Transforming Belfast

Brian O'Neill on November 15, 2016, 12:47 pm

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Belfast has been transformed over the last decade. The once desolate Cathedral Quarter is now attracting thousands of revelers every week. The Titanic Quarter is seeing massive investment by companies overseas and local. It seems every other day a new bar or restaurant is popping up. But we can do more. Belfast city centre has one of the lowest occupancy rates of any city in the UK or Ireland. How do we attract people to live in the city …

Dealing with derelict buildings could transform our streets for the better

CM Johnston on April 11, 2016, 4:00 pm

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Derelict buildings are so much of a concern in Northern Ireland that millions of pounds have been spent on fake shop-fronts to hide the issue, with the added benefit that cameras here for the Giro d’Italia in 2014 didn’t catch sight of our dirty linen swinging in the breeze. In a way Belfast has previous for for this: just have a look through the windows of the mock frontage added to the row of houses at University Street (University Road …