Former Liverpool Echo print hall to become padel club

Summary

For decades until 2008 the Post & Echo print hall in Liverpool printed thousands of newspapers every day, now it is set to become a leisure venue and health club with 10 padel courts. Tony McDonough reports

Liverpool Echo owner Reach Plc has sold the former Post & Echo print hall to a leisure operator and is set to become a padel and health club.

For decades the building in Old Hall Street housed the Liverpool Post & Echo offices, including the newsroom, with the printing presses below printing thousands of newspapers every day.

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