Freshney Place on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Freshney Place is a
Hammerson's UK Ltd began a £100 million redevelopment of the retail centre, doubling it in size. The expanded centre was covered in a glass roof. Two multi-storey car parks were constructed at each end of the centre; with this development, the old ''Top Town'' area of Grimsby was effectively privatised and roofed over. Stores are serviced at the first floor by ramps at the western end, which can accommodate even large vehicles. The ramp also provides access to the car park on the roof of the indoor market, which is operated by the local council. Freshney Place won a design commendation in the Refurbishment Category of the 1993 BCSC awards.
Freshney PlaceFreshney Place shopping centre on The Retail Database
Buildings and structures in Grimsby
shopping centre
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre ( Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known colle ...
in Grimsby
Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of L ...
, North East Lincolnshire. Located in the centre of Grimsby it is visited annually by 400000 shoppers and employs over 2000 retail workers. The centre houses over 100 stores, with the anchor stores of Marks and Spencer, Next
Next may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film
* ''Next'' (1990 film), an animated short about William Shakespeare
* ''Next'' (2007 film), a sci-fi film starring Nicolas Cage
* '' Next: A Primer on Urban Painting'', a 2005 documentary film
Lit ...
, Primark
Primark Stores Limited (; trading as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland) is an Irish multinational fast fashion retailer with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. It has stores across Europe and in the United States. The Penneys brand is not us ...
, Deichmann, British Heart Foundation
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is a cardiovascular research charity in the United Kingdom. It funds medical research related to heart and circulatory diseases and their risk factors, and runs influencing work aimed at shaping public policy ...
and Game from 2018.
Development
Constructed between 1967 and 1971 in a joint venture between the old ''Grimsby Borough Council'' and developers Hammerson's UK Ltd., it was known as the ''Riverhead Centre'' (so named as the development was adjacent to where the two local rivers, the Freshney and the Haven, meet). It is situated to the north of Victoria Street, the main pedestrianised shopping street of the town. The Riverhead Centre development caused some controversy as it replaced old architecture with new, as was typical in the 1960s. It demolished much of the old town centre, including the historic Bull Ring (which is now where Wilkos, theHalifax Bank
Halifax (previously known as Halifax Building Society and colloquially known as The Halifax) is a British banking brand operating as a trading division of Bank of Scotland, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group.
It is named ...
and the St James Hotel are based), and streets going back many centuries, including ''Flottergate'' (located at the present-day entrance to Freshney Place between Poundland and the market), ''Brewery Street'' (located at the present-day entrance to Freshney Place between Barclays and the offices of the ), and ''East St Mary's Gate'' (no trace remains). During this reconstruction, the ornate Victorian branch of the Midland Bank
Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836. It ...
was demolished; a building of contemporary design was incorporated into the new shopping centre. In 1983 Marks and Spencer purchased the local department store ''Lawson and Stockdale,'' whose frontage ran along Victoria Street; they demolished the building and constructed a new store, linked to the centre.
In 1990 the council agreed to sell the surface parking area around the shopping centre to Hammerson's UK Ltd. The development owner and Humberside County Council
Humberside County Council was the county council of the non-metropolitan county of Humberside in northern England.
History
Humberside was a non-metropolitan county governed by Humberside County Council and nine non-metropolitan district councils. ...
, the highway authority
A highway authority is a government organization responsible for public roads.
India
The National Highways Authority of India is the national authority for the management of a network of over 60,000 km of national highways in India. The Autho ...
, agreed to the sale of the area of ''Baxtergate'', the road which ran to the rear of the shopping centre, between the shopping centre and the surface car park. ''Baxtergate'' was relocated alongside the River Freshney and became phase one of the Peaks Parkway
The Peaks Parkway is part of the northern end of the A16 road, in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. It was conceived in the 1970s and follows part of the trackbed of the former East Lincolnshire Railway between and .
Following on ...
.
Hammerson's UK Ltd began a £100 million redevelopment of the retail centre, doubling it in size. The expanded centre was covered in a glass roof. Two multi-storey car parks were constructed at each end of the centre; with this development, the old ''Top Town'' area of Grimsby was effectively privatised and roofed over. Stores are serviced at the first floor by ramps at the western end, which can accommodate even large vehicles. The ramp also provides access to the car park on the roof of the indoor market, which is operated by the local council. Freshney Place won a design commendation in the Refurbishment Category of the 1993 BCSC awards.
References
{{ReflistExternal links
Freshney Place
Buildings and structures in Grimsby