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Article: Partnership to transform city Creative Sheffield aims to draw in millions and create up to 16,000 jobs over next decade
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- July 2, 2004
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Lyn Barton
A NEW force has been created in Sheffield to steer the city's
hoped-for transformation into a major European economic power.
Creative Sheffield is expected to draw in up to [Pounds]80m of
investment over the next decade.
If successful, regeneration bosses in the city say up to 16,000
jobs could be on the cards, especially around the Upper and Low Don
Valley.
Tim Rippon, the council's Cabinet Member for Economic
Regeneration, said the new public/private sector partnership would
build on the massive successes of organisations like Sheffield One,
the driving force behind the hugely successful Heart of the City
programme.
"For the past five years Sheffield has seen economic revival, ...