Andrew Mikhail calls Southport home after pumping millions of pounds into the town over the last decade The owner of several businesses up and down Merseyside has lifted the lid on his ambitions for one part of Merseyside. “I’m proud of it, I like and I call it home,” Andrew Mikhail said when describing Southport , the town where he has pumped millions into the local area building thriving bars and restaurants. Andrew, who almost lost his life during the Covid-19 pandemic, has left his mark on the Merseyside town as he helped reinvent the "Northern Quarter" of Lord Street in the centre of the coastal town.
As he sat in The Grand, the most recent business venture of his in the town which transformed the former Grand Casino that was left derelict and dormant after it shut down in 2007, most recently being a Genting Casino, Andrew told the ECHO how he still has plans for the town as it recovers from the most brutal and saddening summers Southport has seen in living memory. He said: “The Bold Hotel was the first listed building and premises I bought. I’m a St Helens lad originally, born in Liverpool, moved to St Helens when I was 14.
I started a lot of businesses up when I was there and eventually made my way to Southport but I wasn’t really a stranger to Southport, I’d been coming for many years from being a child like many of us, especially my age. “When I first came to Southport, especially this end of Southport, it was extremely run down. Where we’re sitting.