"People started to say ‘Baltic’s over, Baltic’s done, the city’s moving on.’"
It is a sentiment heard in recent years by Fiona Shaw, chairperson of creative community group Baltic Triangle Area CIC. She, her colleagues and plenty of others disagree with such a view, but it called the area's next move into question.
Over the past two decades, the Baltic Triangle has been transformed from a post-industrial area, characterised by vacant warehouses, into a thriving hub of art, independent business, creativity and hospitality. The offer of live music venues, like Camp & Furnace, a booming digital sector, independent businesses like craft brewers Love Lane and Black Lodge, and the converted Cains Brewery Village - home to a plethora of venues, creative space and the ever-popular Baltic Market - turned the Baltic into Liverpool's 'coolest area'.
