FRIAR'S WALK: Hope for other schemes (From South Wales Argus)
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FRIAR'S WALK: Hope for other schemes
1:30pm Wednesday 10th June 2009 in News
STILL ON TRACK: An artist’s impression of Newport’s city centre university campus
FRIAR'S Walk was one of the victims of the credit crunch along with The Edge, a housing development on the riverfront, and some other residential schemes.
Another Modus project, the £87 million City Spires which was to include a 29-storey tower block, leisure and retail facilities on the site of the Cambrian Retail Centre, was shelved.
But work to regenerate Newport has not come to a complete standstill.
Boulevarding along Kingsway, the footbridge and fountains have transformed that area, work on the riverside park and walk is progressing, a number of residential developments on the waterfront are selling and work on the university's city centre campus is progressing well.
Comments(7)
jono port
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4:32pm Wed 10 Jun 09
Dave on his Soapbox
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4:36pm Wed 10 Jun 09
The Abrogator
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5:34pm Wed 10 Jun 09
Dave on his Soapbox wrote:It's an appalling conflict of interest which flies of in the face of journalist impartiality.
...well one of the board members of Newport Unlimited is an Argus Editor...so there may be some bias possibly...or not.....after all someone is hardly going to be self critical are they?
I tell you, it's a good life at The Argus - if you're part of the editor's gang of chums that is.
Bobevans
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6:26pm Wed 10 Jun 09
http://www.johnlewis
cardiff.com/en-gb/ne
ws/may-update.aspx
The Rabbit
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11:22am Thu 11 Jun 09
The Rabbit
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11:24am Thu 11 Jun 09
(got the spelling right this time)
ken ash says...
2:31pm Wed 10 Jun 09
This redevelopment was doomed because, over the years, all parts of the council didn't have a clue what they were doing. And, rather than this rag trumpeting that there is still hope, it ought to report the REAL facts - like that magazine they produced about three months ago saying that, despite the credit crunch, we were still 'on course'.
Just shows that all of you - the Argus, council and others - are deluded.