First local retailer opens its doors at Liberty Wharf
Saturday 4th September 2010, 2:58PM BST.
Owner Annette Mueller-Allenspach (left) with staff Shelagh Dix and Ashley Batho at the home interior furnishings outlet. Picture: Peter Mourant (01040788)
THE first local business in the Liberty Wharf complex at the Waterfront has opened, and another is to follow soon.
Home interior shop Exquisite – the Final Touch, is now open for business and fashion boutique Eclectics will open at the former abattoir site next month.
The local shops will join Marks and Spencer, Costa Coffee, Hotel Chocolat and the already opened Pasty Presto.
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Bet’s on how long it is that there is an announcement of the first retailer to close at this doomed development? I reckon they will see it out until the end of Christmas period – possibly a January sale and then gone by end Feb/March.
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Good luck ladies…your’e gonna need it…………
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Who knows what will happen down there?
To my mind it is far from the centre of town and there is no obvious parking nearby.
There are some shops that can be anywhere and people will still go because they offer a unique product eg specialist sports equipment.
Will people trek out there for a snack or drink when they can get the same thing in the centre of town?
We will wait and see.
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Quite ironic that it’s called Liberty Wharf, when its gonna be populated with one of the oligopolists.
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(3) Pip Clement
“To my mind it is far from the centre of town and there is no obvious parking nearby”
The Esplanade carpark, Sand Street car park and the Waterfront carpark are all within a 5 minute walk of Liberty wharf – how more obvious do you want?
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“To my mind it is far from the centre of town and there is no obvious parking nearby.”
Cant really get any closer to the Esplanade carpark can it??? Its across the road from where the M and S entrance will be.
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Dear me it’s all doom and gloom isn’t it?
Pip Clement
Have you visited St Helier? There is the Esplanade car park, Sand Street, Waterfront and for those who aren’t so lazy Patriotic Street.
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5 & 6 Have already said my piece, no obvious car parks!! Mental….
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The Esplanade car park won’t be there anymore under Project Esplanade Quarter, if goes ahead.
Sand Street car park is closer to the centre of town than the benighted Waterfront Development.
Least said the better about the Waterfront car park and the race track that separates it from Liberty Wharf and the centre of town.
You can just see the tacks holding the joined up thinking together!
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They are slightly further out but Aquasplash only survives because of a huge public subsidy plus Chicago Rock and Liquid have closed.
I said that we would have to see what happened but I would not choose to be a business owner down there.
When the Esplanade Quarter development gets going the dirt, disruption and noise will be really horrendous, it will go on for years, and it will only be a stone’s throw away
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From reading these articles a few things jump out at me:
One where do the majority of people consider the centre of town to be? The Royal Square anyone? A few minutes walk away.
Two the whole shopping centre is right next to THE BUS STATION, you couldn’t get a better transport link!
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Pip (3 & 9)
Sand Street car park is only 200m from Liberty Wharf, so closer to Liberty Wharf than De Gruchy’s.
The waterfront car park is only 250m away and has zebra crossings across the so called ‘race track’.
Leaving aside the chaos that will ensue during the construction period, the Esplanade Square car park will eventually be replaced by a larger underground car park.
looks like fairly joined up thinking to me. Why not just accept that you are wrong on this one?
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I suppose you think that moving Jersey Tourism out of its old offices facing the square and in to the stump on the end was a good idea as well?
Such a good idea in fact that they are now thinking of having an information kiosk in the area where their old offices were.
I do not think that Liberty Wharf makes much commercial sense, you do.
Time will show who is right.
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And maybe you think that the Richard Falle and Le Pas settlement was a triumph for the island?
I can find £25M worth of costs to the island over that episode but I think there is a lot more buried in the byzantine accounts.
Sweet shop accounting and no freedom of information?
Can you really defend this mess!
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Pip Clement
Have you bothered to look at the plans? The Esplanade car park will be replaced by an underground car park in the new development.
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The new Esplanade car park will offer only a fraction of the current car parking facilities – some of these will be assigned to the new office developments (ie directors etc – not ordinary workers) and some of the parking spaces will be assigned to the retail outlets at Liberty Wharf (according to the Chief Planning Officer I discussed this with). No additional car parking is going to be provided to make up for those which will be lost or to cater for the new office buildings (other than directors etc).
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Getting away from the issue of parking for a moment I would like to say that I had never ever heard of “Pasty Presto” before reading this article.I have lived in the UK now for 4 years and have never seen one.A little research on the internet has taught me that there are only 25 branches in the UK 2 of which are in the Channel Islands.I was hoping,for the sake of Jersey residents,that Liberty Wharf may house some major UK stores but none in sight as yet.
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Why worry about car parks? In our new Ecco, egalitarian society we will all be coming into town by bus, having first done our shopping on the internet.
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I really do wish the new tenants of Liberty Wharf the very best of success, but I feel that the businesses are doomed to fail.
It may be that I would visit once just out of curiosity, and the M&S homeware store may be of interest (much as I do not approve Sandpiper’s policy in pricing in their M&S franchises).
That aside, and I do use the bus frequently, I would probably not consider going near the place unless there was a really unique business there.
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The esplanade quarter will clearly never get built so I wouldn’t worry too much about loosing that car park.
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