The real prize is persuading a big hi-tech manufacturing company to move in.
But it looks as though the Dome could be redeemed--reinvented as one big hi-tech zone.
Some of the worlds big hi-tech firms, fearing a consumer backlash, are now refusing to source supplies from anywhere in Central Africa, turning instead to Australia, Canada and Brazil.
Standard-def TV has so few pixels that blowing them up on a big hi-def screen reveals every flaw in the analog signal and adds visible glitches from the conversion.
The gorgeous speaker cabinets are easy on the eyes, with or without the speaker grille, and feature metal matrix waveguide-mounted tweeters that deliver big hi-fi sound from any location in the room.
Last week the London Mayor Boris Johnson re-designated Tech City as covering the whole of the capital which he described as Europe's biggest hi-tech cluster.
Not surprisingly, the app was optimized for the iPad's Retina display, so in addition to 320 kilobits-per-second streaming, you also get big, beautiful hi-definition cover art.
It's the sort of sound that's crying out to be played on vinyl through a hot-tube receiver and some big, boxy hi-fi speakers; the kind of rock'n'soul stew begging for phrases to be dusted down from the 70s rock-critic arsenal such as "in the pocket", "tight" and "lick".
