An empty area of Liverpool City Centre is being transformed under plans inspired by a high end New York neighbourhood.
And new documents reveal that some of the largest projects on the site could be finished next year.
The Paddington Village development is part of a plan to redevelop an area of land just past the new Royal Hospital building.
The site had been empty for a number of years following the demolition of a number of buildings but it's hoped a council-backed plan to develop it will come to fruition soon.
Mayor Joe Anderson said progress on new offices, shops and homes in Paddington had been 'phenomenal' so far.
Speaking at a cabinet meeting this week, he said: "It is absolutely amazing - I am hugely impressed by the work that's going on at the site."
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A council update on the project, which was launched in 2016, details how work on infrastructure near the site should be completed late this year, with a number of key projects following in 2020.
It's hoped the area will become a hub for medical and scientific research - but hotels, shops and apartments are also planned in an effort to make the area a self contained neighbourhood.
A statement on the project's website that the 30 acre site will be 'a sizeable urban village, inspired by the sense of community you’d find in the likes of Greenwich Village in New York'.
It says: "Not only will it be a great place to live but a great place to work, discover and socialise, with state-of-the-art workspace, labs, cafés, restaurants, shops, accommodation, a hotel and teaching, examination and events space."
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One of the central buildings in Paddington will be the 'Spine', the striking new offices for the Royal College of Physicians, which picked Liverpool to host its new northern headquarters.
There will also be an international college built for the University of Liverpool as well as a cancer centre to give patients proton beam therapy.
A Novotel and apartment blocks also form part of the plans.
However the progress report submitted to the city's cabinet does not mention plans for a railway station on the city's loop line which was mooted when the project originally launched.
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That plan would see a new station built to link up the Knowledge Quarter, the area Paddington Village lies within, with the rest of the city, providing better access to the new Royal Hospital.
Speaking in 2016 mayor Anderson said: “If we are creating that unique space, 30 acres, where we’re going to have literally thousands of people working there, going to college, going to sites there, then we’ve got to enhance the connectivity.
The new Royal site is not yet open after extensive delays caused by the collapse of contractor Carillion and problems with the new building which have come to light since then.
