Belfast city centre makeover

Belfast the city once a name that conjured up conflict is set for a major mulit million makeover
Margaret Ritchie, the Social Development Minister has announced a £16m programme to transform 14 of Belfast's main streets and public spaces in an effort to attract new businesses and encourage more residential development in Belfast city centre.
Half a million pounds of the money will be spent on new pieces of public art. Work is due to be completed by 2009.
"This new form of public space investment will encourage clean, safe and friendly streets and bring about a feel-good factor about our city centre in Belfast. Obviously my ultimate goal is to make Belfast city centre one of the premier European cities to match Dublin, Glasgow, Liverpool."
Margaret Ritchie said that the planned new public art works would add interest to Belfast's streets and give pride to residents.
"Belfast already has some good examples of public art such as the sculpture at Thanksgiving Square at Laganside. To complement our new streets, I intend to invest £500,000 in commissioning a number of new artworks. Later this year, local people will have an opportunity to vote for a new centrepiece for Arthur Square, one of the main public spaces in Belfast."

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