How leisure, jobs and town centre living will transform Middlesbrough

Willow said:
Sounds exciting. Dont live in area anymore but would love to see it improved. Having said that, I remember being excited when they unveiled all the plans they had for middlehaven many years ago. Most of that withered away in the cold light of reality, so I'll maintain a healthy scepticism until it done.
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I think it is a case of 'believe it when you see it'.
Too many false dawns over the years.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
A long time in the planning with nothing ever happening in the Town Centre except demolition of houses and a Tsunami of takeaways.

I'll be as pleased as anyone if these things happen but I won't hold my breath on it.
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The sites of the demolished out of date houses are already being built on. If you look at the area behind Union Street and the old ABC cinema, building of new houses is commencing.
 
Humpty said:
Isn't there already a bowling alley under Centre North East and a cinema near the underpass? Does this not just draw people away from those attractions?
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I would think (and hope) that a cinema in an area like Captain Cook square would be a one or two screen job that doesn't just show blockbusters. Perhaps it will include a half decent restaurant and a bar.
 
Nice to have a pretty Town, however it will be surrounded by unused office blocks that the Council have no control over, even the once grand old ABC is becoming a blot without a future. Big pants time council, source these owners and get these buildings sorted or it will be a waste of time, effort and money.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
I would think (and hope) that a cinema in an area like Captain Cook square would be a one or two screen job that doesn't just show blockbusters. Perhaps it will include a half decent restaurant and a bar.
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Would such a thing be viable?

I think that would be great but in this day and age of streaming and everything on demand would people use it?
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
I would think (and hope) that a cinema in an area like Captain Cook square would be a one or two screen job that doesn't just show blockbusters. Perhaps it will include a half decent restaurant and a bar.
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We had one close to where we lived in USA, they showed a lot of English films that the multi screens weren't showing and midnight movies (which we didn't bother with) on a Friday and Saturday. It had a bar which we loved but no restaurant.

There was a cinema that had a restaurant in Stockton when I was a kid. Not sure which one. I was at the Everyman in Harrogate a couple of years ago, they had waiting staff serving food at your seat, which was popular.

At the Cork film festival a few years ago the venue I was at had a great bar.

I think the combination is a great idea, one venue with different functions.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
Would such a thing be viable?

I think that would be great but in this day and age of streaming and everything on demand would people use it?
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An 'Everyman cinema' might work on the premise that it's a little bit of a different experience to your average cinema.
 
DCI_Gene_Hunt said:
Would such a thing be viable?

I think that would be great but in this day and age of streaming and everything on demand would people use it?
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Possibly. I know it's a much bigger city but there is a place called the Phoenix in Leicester that I visited a couple of times. It has a decent restaurant which also has activities for children on weekend afternoons. My son went there once when the director of the film did a question and answer session afterwards. Oh, and you can take your beer to your seat.(y)
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
Possibly. I know it's a much bigger city but there is a place called the Phoenix in Leicester that I visited a couple of times. It has a decent restaurant which also has activities for children on weekend afternoons. My son went there once when the director of the film did a question and answer session afterwards. Oh, and you can take your beer to your seat.(y)
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I'm not sure that last sentence is a positive - surely everyone would be just getting up & going to the bog all the time..............................
 
Humpty said:
An 'Everyman cinema' might work on the premise that it's a little bit of a different experience to your average cinema.
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I agree, but Everyman would have to make a move into the type of town they don't normally associate with.

It's why places like the Arc are funded by local government, otherwise we'd get nothing.
 
Humpty said:
Isn't there already a bowling alley under Centre North East and a cinema near the underpass? Does this not just draw people away from those attractions?
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They are not bothered about those. They just want people to play with their shiny new toys.

Said earlier I think we are ok for cinemas. Probably ok for bowling alleys as well. Let's have some different ideas.
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
Will 'urban professionals' really be queing up to buy upmarket properties over the border?
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Bo House - over the border has been a real success over the past 7 or 8 years. Next to the Bongo the idea as work and living spaces combined seems a bit like it was ahead of the game. Also the row of houses built next to Transporter Park are very isolated but always full. Middlesbrough College, all the many Boho modern offices and even the police station and the proximity to the railway station and the river means this area is somewhere people want to live and work.
The border has gone, effectively.
BOHOUSE
 

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