(17 Nov 2016, 8:40 pm)Michael wrote Hopefully that changes in the next 5 years as we have a 1 billion investment coming in to the city with the VUAX site, Seaburn and Nissan and around the new bridge.

See the upcoming development thread for Sunderland, for more info because i cba to going to details for each one.

I agree with you but I don't think the right things are happening in Sunderland at all. A Nex

The key things should be for a start leisure/restaurants, as how many well known (or chain) restaurants are there in Sunderland? It really is a massive help, as it increases dwell time in the city centre, there is no reason why there couldn't be a restaurant quarter (like Greys Quarter) in The Bridges or surrounding it as I don't think the restaurants near the Empire Cinema is good enough at all. 

New roads are all well and good but will it increase footfall in the city centre? I would think no.