City Central

rdf:langString City Central

rdf:langString City Central BID

rdf:langString Liverpool Leisure and Stores Committee and Liverpool City Council

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rdf:langString Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

rdf:langString Bill Addy, Chief Executive.

rdf:langString City Central is a business improvement district (BID) representing approximately 630 businesses in the retail and leisure heart of Liverpool city centre. The BID covers 49 acres and includes 61 streets: Bold Street, Church Street, Lord Street, the Cavern Quarter, Whitechapel, Williamson Square, Queen Square, Ranelagh Street and all inter-connecting streets. Key shopping centres located within the City Central area include: Cavern Walks, Clayton Square, Metquarter and St. Johns. The BID raises a 1.2% levy on the annual business rates of its members to fund a five-year programme that enhances the public services of the local authority to provide a safe, clean, attractive and well promoted trading area within Liverpool city centre. Its core aim is to enhance the experience for shoppers, visitors and workers to the city centre and establish the high standards necessary to support Liverpool's reputation as a premier European city. The BID sits under the umbrella of Liverpool BID Company and is a company limited by guarantee. It reports quarterly to an executive board and also to an operating board whose members are re-elected annually at its A.G.M. The BID will seek to enter a third term through a ballot of its members in May 2013, which would run until 31 October 2018. In November 2013 the chief executive Ged Gibbons was suspended, no explanation was given.