Don't get too excited; it'll be a long time before we'll see another millennium. With that in mind, Bristol City Council have decided - approaching twenty years after the Behnisch 'Exploding Greenhouse' Harbourside Centre was canned - to sell off part of the site:
Bristol City Council is selling an acre of prime land by the WaterfrontThe land sits next to Millennium Square, the Floating Harbour, is surrounded by restaurants and being advertised by Savills estate agentsA piece of one of Bristol City Centre's most iconic areas is up for sale.
Bristol City Council is selling off a parcel of its land on the Waterfront, which is described as an “unprecedented opportunity”.
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Bristol Post Students of controversial project cancellations in the Bristol area may wish to take note; this is an object lesson in how it's done. The real beauty of the 'slow death' cancellation approach is that if you do it right, you get to quietly hang onto an appreciating asset (the site) which you can then sell when the weather gets really bad (i.e. now, in this case).
