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Liverpool - the Baltic Triangle

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Baltic Triangle is a creative development area, near Liverpool city centre, with a number of digital, food and drink and pop culture businesses, street art, and popular hipster venues. The idea started a few years ago as Independent Liverpool , a blog for a bit of fun to promote local ventures. From there, a membership card came with local currency, occasional food and drink festival, and it eventually turned the empty and derelict sites of the Baltic triangle into one of Liverpool’s most visited places.  Baltic Creative on 49 Jamaica Street, established in 2009, is the epicentre for supporting the area to thrive (upper left). Very Local Radio Station (upper right). The name Baltic Triangle most probably comes from Liverpool links as a port to the Baltic countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Poland where from timber was exported and stored here in the vast warehouses , of which remains are now converted into flats. (There is a Scandinavian church while approaching the area along