LIVERPOOL'S new Paradise Street public transport inter-change opened yesterday, heralding the first major scheme to be completed as part of Grosvenor's £920m redevelopment in the city centre.
The big test will come this morning when thousands of city-centre bound commuters start to get used to the shake-up in bus travel.
The completion of the interchange, with a dedicated travel centre as well as the nearby multi-storey car park, is a triumph for Grosvenor's technical director, Bill Allen.
The completion of the interchange and car park means that Grosvenor has now spent £200m on the Paradise Street Development Area project.
It also means that the scheme is 30% through its 44-month long contract project, and everything is on time.
Mr Allen, who originally trained as an NHS dentist and worked in the profession for two years, gave up drilling teeth for major civil engineering projects.
He joined Grosvenor after working as senior project manager on the highly-successful redevelopment of Birmingham's Bullring.
Last night he said: "It has been a tight schedule in Liverpool but everything has worked well and we are on schedule.
"We needed to finish the interchange and the multi-storey car park because we have to remove the old Paradise Street bus station and NCP car park as soon as possible."
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