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Let's hope the enthusiasm is not financially premature - I'm far from sure we are coming towards the edge of the wood yet let alone out of it.

Well lets hope this is the case,it will bring much needed employment to the building sector.The plans include the removal of the awful escalator at the bottom of Albion Street,the disappearance of that awful set of bus stops(the shop units will be extended forward to the edge of the bus stop frontage) which are being replaced with a similar set up to Infirmary Street for buses.This is also going to involve some new traffic management for Boar Lane to accomadate this.The bridge over Albion Street (Big issue sellers territory) will be replaced with a new one entirely.The empty shops on Albion Street will also be refurbed (i believe) as part of this development.I sincereley hope that the Eastgate development gets underway,but to have two such projects running side by side would be stretching it too far at the moment.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthrea ... =72Message at top of page with a bit more detail as to dates etc

http://plandocs.leeds.gov.uk/WAM/doc/Dr ... ount=1This looks like the east end of Holy Trinity will have an open space with stairs leading into the centre.This looks like a good idea as we havent been able to see all of this side properley.

cnosni wrote: the disappearance of that awful set of bus stops(the shop units will be extended forward to the edge of the bus stop frontage) which are being replaced with a similar set up to Infirmary Street for buses.This is also going to involve some new traffic management for Boar Lane to accomadate this. Agreed even with its recent refurb the Boar Lane interchange isn't brilliant (sunk cost accounting?). However with access to lower Basinghall street necessary for delivery's to the Leeds Plaza (Bond Street Centre) and access to Mill Hill Chapel and other buildings the options for change in traffic management will be pretty limited. There certainly won't be room for a Bus Stop Island a la Infirmary Street especially with the need for southern egress still requiring the Mill Hill Dog leg. They would also need to sort once and for all the taxi issue on New Station street which still, albeit rarely, raises its ugly head.Does one of your links eventually lead to the proposed traffic management/bus stop proposals? The Leeds one just leads to a page of fairly non descriptive links.

I'd not hold my breath too much about this. After all we do have a large gap behind Holy Trinity on Boar Lane that's on hold, and this Harewood Quarter development that's not progressing.Several years time maybe, but not soon. Otherwise we're not seeing any of these wonderful skyscrapers that we were supposed to have.

This story is the large hole behind Trinity church.

It's good to hear things might be moving again, but opening in 2012 seems a tad optimistic to me. We're already over half way through 2010, so that gives them (effectively) 12 months to get everything done as the new shopkeepers will want to be established for the 2012 Christmas rush. No business will want to be relocating in the months leading up to the festive free for all.I can't help but feel that many of the "key retailers" who are committed to the site will only be moving from elsewhere in the city centre. Are we really expected to believe that Next (for example) will keep their store on Albion Street open when they open a flagship store in the Trinity? It would be nice to see local independent outlets encouraged so we have something different to the identikit selection of shops you can find in any town centre up and down the country, let alone what we should have in the Knightsbridge of the North.The public transport interchange sounds interesting, but I also struggle to see how they'll fit all that into the available space.Mind you, the one on Infirmary Street is in the wrong place and criminally underused as a result.