Titanic Quarter Update

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TITANIC

QUARTER

NEWS

WINTER  2010

 

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  “Building the future from the past”
  TITANIC QUARTER NEWS – WINTER 2010
 
For Titanic Quarter, 2009 was a year of developments which continued to change Belfast’s skyline.The largest of these is the £97m Titanic Signature Building which is progressing well and now holds the record for the island’s largest concrete pour.  When completed up to 400,000 people will annually visit the attraction which will be owned and run by a charitable foundation.Work also continued apace at the Arc residential development (now including its first occupants), Belfast Metropolitan College’s new campus and the new £30m Public Record Office which will complete this year.  Citi has brought over 500 employees to the new Gateway Office.

As the physical landscape changes, so too does the social environment.  Titanic Quarter is coming to life and there are retail, public realm and hotel projects already in the pipeline.  
 
There’s more to Titanic Quarter than just bricks and mortar – watch this space for more developments in 2010.

 

 

  
   
 
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TITANIC SIGNATURE PROJECT  
On Course For 2012 Completion
 
With physical on-site work now into its ninth month, the £97m Titanic Signature Building is well on course for completion in 2012, just in time for the centenary commemorations of Titanic’s loss.Backed by the Northern Ireland Executive, Belfast Harbour, Belfast City Council and Titanic Quarter Ltd, the project will be owned and operated by the Titanic Trust, an independent charitable trust.  It’s expected to attract up to 400,000 visitors annually and become one of Northern Ireland’s best known tourist destinations.There are plenty of historical resonances as well. Built in sight of the slipway where the Titanic was born, work on the building began 100 years after the construction on the Titanic started.  It’s also a similarly gargantuan effort; in December the site witnessed the island’s largest concrete pour, an 18-hour process which used 4,200 cubic metres over an area of 3,800 square metres.
 
The project will also enable Titanic Quarter to develop related plans for hotels, retail units and additional leisure space, including the development of Slipway Park – one of the largest public spaces to be created in Belfast in the past 50 years.

 

 
 
   
Apartment Homes Come Full Arc  
Titanic Quarter Welcomes First Residents
 
At the end of last year Titanic Quarter welcomed its first residents to the new Arc Development. Three of the development’s six blocks have already been completed, the fourth is due imminently and the remainder are due for completion by summer 2010.Located beside Belfast’s largest expanse of open water, Abercorn Basin, Arc will comprise 474 apartments as well as providing space for the new Premier Inn hotel and a selection of retail and restaurant outlets. The Arc is also home to ‘Kit’ Belfast’s newest piece of public art which opens to the public at the end of this month (access via the rear of Odyssey or the Queen’s Road). The nautical theme will also be reinforced by the development of Abercorn Basin into Belfast’s first city centre marina.Feedback from the first residents has been highly positive with particular praise for the apartments’ ’boutique hotel’ ambience, generous floor space, stunning private gardens and individual outlook. For more information please contact James Loughrey.

 

 

 
 
   
OPENING UP THE GATEWAY  
First Part of Financial Services Centre
 
Located at the entrance to Titanic Quarter, the Gateway building certainly lives up to its name.  Opened in summer 2009, the 150,000 sq ft facility is the first part of a planned financial services centre.
 
The building is already two-thirds let to Citi, the global financial institution which now employs almost 1,000 workers across two sites within Titanic Quarter.  This is Citi’s fifth year in Belfast, with its operations in the city providing support to its Global Markets & Banking business.Designed by Todd Architects, Gateway consists of three distinct blocks, linked together to enclose a central courtyard. Each block is five storeys high (including a penthouse level) and together they form a right angled triangle.  It sits on a semi-basement with 113 car parking spaces and staff changing facilities. Apart from internal design features which reflect aspects of Belfast’s shipbuilding past, green issues were also to the fore and the building incorporates features such as grey water recycling, geo-thermal water heating, solar panels and heat recovery. 
Gateway is a benchmark of high quality design for Titanic Quarter and provides an impressive entrance to the latest phase of Belfast’s evolution. 

 

 
 
   
ROOM AT THE INN  
Premier Inn Opens 2010
 
First by name and first by nature, Premier Inn is set to become the first hotel to open at Titanic Quarter.  Due for completion late 2010, the 122 bedroom, £8m hotel is part of the Arc complex at Abercorn Basin.Situated adjacent to Titanic Quarter’s entrance and nearby to the Gateway Office, Odyssey, Public Record Office and Belfast Metropolitan College, the hotel will be a valuable addition to the growing development. Premier Inn is the UK’s largest hotel chain and is part of the Whitbread group which employs 33,000 people and includes brands such as Costa Coffee and Brewers Fayre restaurants.  The Titanic Quarter hotel, which will be the sixth in Northern Ireland, is expected to particularly appeal to the tourist and business sectors.