The same joint venture partnership involved in recent property purchases across the North West, including Number 8 Water Street in Liverpool City Centre, has now purchased 122 Old Hall Street for £3.25m. Known for its clad mirrored glass facade which curves around from Leeds Street to Old Hall Street on the edge of the business district the site is currently 3 storeys high and was purpose built in the 1980s by the Moores family.
Purchased from Shop Direct Group the 32,000 sq ft office space was bought by a partnership between long term business associates Craig Blackwell of Prospect Capital and Martin Wilcocks of Wilcocks & Wilcocks.
Shop Direct Home Shopping, the online division for Very.co.uk and Littlewoods.com, will continue to be based at the site and plans for the rest of the commercial site are not yet known, but will be announced in the first quarter of 2017.
Commenting on the purchase Craig Blackwell “It gives us great pleasure to announce the purchase of this iconic site on Old Hall Street. The site is positioned, as we see it, at the gateway to the central business district of Liverpool City Centre. With outlooks across to the city and the river Mersey this sits in a key position on the city landscape.”