More than 150 people attended a fact-finding event staged in a fruit warehouse aimed at promoting the area as a new business quarter.
With long-term regeneration plans for the area currently on hold, new temporary uses for the buildings they will leave behind are now being explored.
So let me get this straight, you have people who want to start developing existing properties right now, who are willing to begin the regeneration process, and instead we're looking at using it as free exhibition space? Wow, it's almost like there's no recession and Hull doesn't need the jobs created by the redevelopment work and the new business opportunities that the Fruit Market site will one day offer (if anyone is ever allowed to get on with developing it!) While it's admirable for people to want a single, grand vision for the redevelopment, it's clear that the scheme could be some time in coming if ever, meanwhile leaving an undeveloped site costing the council money rather than generating it. But hey, as long as someone has a grand vision, that's all that matters I guess!
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