The Vision

The Vision is a new concept by Argyle Business Centre for a social economy hotel with a focus on training and regeneration within Belfast's Shankill Rd.

CATALYST FOR POSITIVE CHANGE
The Shankill Road Mission building is of great architectural merit
and is important historically to this area of Belfast - telling a tale of
its past and now hoping to grow it’s future.
The project can act as the catalyst required in this part of the city,
which is in great need of rejuvenation and which can lead to
economic and social growth, as well as increasing tourism trade
in the greater North and West Belfast areas.
The local communities in search for work will benefit through
structured education and training programmes, leading to:
• Growing a Sustainable Economy and Investing in the Future (e. g.
Enhanced economic infrastructure)
• Creating Opportunities, Tackling Disadvantage and Improving
Health and Well being (e. g. less deprived communities).
• Protecting Our People, the Environment and Creating Safer
Communities (e. g. preserving and improving the built and natural
environment)
• Building a Strong and Shared Community (e. g. unlocking the
potential of the culture, arts and leisure sectors)
GOALS
• Reinstatement of a historically important building
• Renewal of a building that will animate an important city
streetscape
• Provide a home for a vibrant and economically important
social economy enterprise project
• Provide education and training of traditional heritage skills
during construction
• Provide employment, education and appropriate skills on an
ongoing legacy basis
• Promote the value of education, training and lifelong learning
in an area where the formal education system has been
spectacularly failing many
• Enhance the overall tourism product and marketing of the
Shankill, North and West Belfast, and the city as a whole
• Be a catalyst for private investment and economic regeneration
in an area of multiple deprivation
• The project sponsor is a Registered Charity whose profit ts are
reinvested in regeneration of the area