The 'run down' part of Liverpool that become UK's 'coolest' area

People living and working in one of the UK’s coolest areas are no stranger to a revamp of an old warehouse.

The Baltic Triangle can be seen as one of Liverpool’s biggest success stories. In the last twenty years, its derelict buildings have been repurposed to house some of the city’s most notable hospitality and nightlife venues, including Manifest, Camp and Furnace and the Baltic Market.

Its latest addition came last week, with Canning Hall reopening as BOXPARK, the dining and entertainment complex which is the business’ first outside London.

BOXPARK launch events include Joel Dommett comedy night and Atomic Kitten bottomless brunch

Wooden bungalow on the idyllic island cut off by the tide 12 hours a day

Speaking to the ECHO, BOXPARK CEO Simon Champion said the move had been a long time in the making.

Simon said: “We looked at over 300 sites over the past ten years and we’ve only got four. We’re very happy to open in Liverpool.

“BOXPARK is about music, sport and events. We do over 600 events per site, per year. Liverpool itself has great history in terms of that. It was an obvious city to go to.”

The area is cited as one of the ‘coolest’ areas in the country. The Daily Telegraph included it in its list of 15 neighbourhoods last week, while Time Out declared it as the 11th coolest in the world.

Groups such as the Baltic Creative CIC were amongst those responsible for the transformation of this city centre district. Its CEO, Lynn Haime, joined the company a few years ago but argues its work has been crucial for a long time.

She said: “It was a pretty run down part of the city. It was about to be designated as a red light zone apparently. We got involved in conversion of fairly bland warehouses into the Baltic Creative.