Festival Gardens - Waterpark Operator Soft Market Testing

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Festival Gardens is located about 3.5 miles south of Liverpool city centre, in the north west of England. It is one of the last remaining waterfront development opportunities within the Liverpool area. The Council has ambitions to regenerate it and deliver a destination as part of a mixed-use masterplan that will include a residential area, a hotel, a car park, various leisure activities and parkland. The objective for the Festival Gardens site is to create a significant visitor attraction with a city, regional and nationwide catchment. One of the main planned leisure facilities is an indoor waterpark destination, which would be the largest of its kind in the UK attracting visitors from a wide catchment. The waterpark is the focus of this soft market testing exercise. The Council is seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced leisure and waterpark operators to gauge their interest in operating the waterpark and, potentially, also providing capital investment in its initial development. Keywords: leisure operator, water park