Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

Yes I thought that was the case , Cooplands was taken over by the owners of Asda
and they also shut the factory in Hull

 

Yeah, went there Thursday evening. Was not expecting much but they managed to do worse.
First glass of prosecco (not my drink ) was flat, replacement was warm.
Ordered some small dishes (a few on the menu not available) and some chips. Waitress came back a few minutes later to say they'd run out of chips!
Food very average or poor.
Bill came with a charge for a bottle of prosecco instead of a glass, barely an apology.
Most of all though, a lot of staff but they could only do one thing so if you wanted anything else they had to get someone else over, ... eventually.
Just a really poor execution of an idea.

 

Think itll last the year?

 

How the **** does a restaurant run out of spuds to make chips?

 

There’s a whole new set of independents now , have a look at the old Stanley’s Brasserie opposite Station Hotel , cracking graphics , warms your heart to see a classy looking restaurant turned into a kaleidoscope of colour !

 

Nope. Unless they get in a manager who knows what he's doing.

 

A grant of £750,000 has been awarded to Tokyo Industries (Yorkshire) Ltd, trading as Iron Lilies, bringing a new late-night bar and restaurant.

The funding is from monies awarded to Hull City Council in 2021 by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).

Iron Lilies will occupy the former Virgin Megastore on Level 2 of Princes Quay Shopping Centre which has stood vacant for a decade.

The funding will also help to create 19 full-time equivalent jobs, as well as bringing back into use large, vacant floor space.

 

****ing joke that grant. It’ll be gone by Christmas hopefully.

 

It would have made more sense on the ground floor, and grouped all the dining and entertainment things together. Going by the reviews it needs to improve quickly or it will soon be bust and that 750,000 will heve been wasted.

 

Id be very surprised if its here in one years time

 

Classic Hull mentality, the council support a business to regenerate a unit that’s been vacant for a decade and people can’t wait to put it down. The grant won’t come close to covering the overall cost so there’s been some significant external investment, plus it’s created 19 full time jobs, not to mention the contractors that worked on the renovation.

It’s a new venue and quite possible they’re having teething issues, I’ve also heard from others that they enjoyed their visit, so perhaps the posters on here just got unlucky.

I wish them well, and I’d like to see the council do more of these initiatives to bring life back to prominent buildings in the city.

 

Iron Lillies sounds like the same story as Hammonds of Hull, good idea and location, badly executed, very dissapointing, first impressions are critical. Hope it won't stop the investment of anyone else trying to have a go at bringing something new to our city centre.

 

It's not a classic Hull mentality, it's the mentality of a few that shout louder than most. You'll struggle to find any place in the country that's different.


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

 

I know it’s all taxpayers money, but I do think the Council are getting a bit of a kicking unnecessarily (unless I’ve misunderstood things?)
I thought it was Govt ‘levelling up’ money nationally, that was basically administered through Councils. So the Govt set the rules on what companies were eligible and the Council abided by those rules?
If that’s the case, and many of the small independents that we would have all liked to have funded weren’t eligible anyway, what were they supposed to do…give the money back because they were unsure if the new businesses were going to be successful?

 

The other point that often gets missed is that some of the ‘big’ businesses that people think this money shouldn’t go to are in fact local companies with a franchise of those big businesses.

 

For me it's just the lack of joined up thinking, I am aware that grant money will come with conditions attached, but we end up with oasises of new things and acres of bleakness between them. I thought prinny Quay was planning to turn the ground floor into entertainment, it could be accessed when the shopping is closed. Now they have open a restaurant on level 2 can you even get there at night? and how do they control the people wandering about?

 

Vue cinema in Prinny Quay is easily accessible till late.

 

Thats a fair point.
I think ‘a bleak oasis of new things’ was the previous Govt’s vision of levelling up! but at least having eateries on the same floor of the building would make sense.

(I used to like ‘top deck’ of prinny quay when it was a collection of random hippy clothing, bars and t shirt makers!)

 

Where is Iron Lillies?
Same floor as Vue?