Liverpool Vision

{{Short description|Former economic development company}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=August 2022}}

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{{Infobox company

| name = Liverpool Vision

| logo = Liverpool Vision Logo.jpg

| type = Economic Development Company

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| foundation = 1999

| defunct = 2018

| fate = Role absorbed by Liverpool City Council

| founder = English Partnerships, Liverpool City Council, NWDA, Various Private Sector Leaders with an interest in Liverpool

| location_city = Liverpool

| location_country = England

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| key_people = First Chairman Sir Joe Dwyer, Deputy Chairman Mike Story and First CEO Dr Layth Bunni. Other Board members included Alan Middleton and Sir Terry Leahy. Mike Parker (Chairman), Max Steinberg (Chief Executive)

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Liverpool Vision was an Economic Development Company based in Liverpool, England.{{cite web |title=About Us |publisher=Liverpool Vision |url=http://www.liverpoolvision.co.uk/aboutus/aboutus.asp |accessdate=2009-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131233309/http://liverpoolvision.co.uk/aboutus/aboutus.asp |archive-date=2009-01-31 |url-status=dead }} Set up in 1999, Liverpool Vision was the first Urban Regeneration Company to be founded in the United Kingdom and was tasked with leading the physical transformation of the city into the new millennium.{{cite web |title=The Urban Regeneration Companies |publisher=Homes and Communities Agency |url=http://www.urcs-online.co.uk/companies/ |accessdate=2009-10-01}} In 2008, a re-organisation of Liverpool Vision saw its operations as a URC merged with both the Liverpool Land Development Company and Business Liverpool to form a single Economic Development Company within Liverpool.{{cite web |title=Liverpool Vision |publisher=Homes and Communities Agency |url=http://www.urcs-online.co.uk/companies/company.asp?id=36 |accessdate=2009-10-01}} Liverpool Vision also offered business support. Liverpool Vision led the Liverpool at World Expo in Shanghai 2010 project.

It was announced in November 2018 that Liverpool Vision was being closed down. Most, but not all, Liverpool Vision staff transferred to the Liverpool City Council to carry on their work.{{cite web |title=Liverpool City Council announces the closure of Liverpool Vision - Liverpool Business News |url=https://lbndaily.co.uk/liverpool-city-council-announces-closure-liverpool-vision/ |website=Liverpool Business News |accessdate=19 November 2018 |date=19 November 2018}}