St James Quarter is a new retail led, lifestyle district that fully integrates into and enhances Edinburgh’s City Centre providing an inspiring, attractive, and vibrant destination for locals and visitors to live, shop, eat, sleep and play.

History

St James Quarter is built on the site of the

St. James Centre The St. James Centre, later re-branded as St. James Shopping, was a shopping centre next to the former New St. Andrew House office building for the Scottish Office, in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was initially designed by Burke Martin Partnership in ...

which closed in October 2016 and the adjoining New St Andrew House office, which was formerly occupied by the

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. The new retail and leisure destination opened on 24 June 2021. On 29 September 2022, HRH Princess Royal officially opened the development.

Constitute sections

Retail galleria

St James Quarter has 850,000 sq. feet (78,967.584 m2) of retail space, with the neighbouring

John Lewis & Partners John Lewis & Partners (formerly and commonly known as John Lewis) is a brand of high-end department stores operating throughout United Kingdom, the UK, with concessions also located in the Republic of Ireland and Australia. The brand sells gene ...

store being its' anchor. The Quarter houses an enviable line up of restaurants, cafés, bars, shops, public spaces and leisure venues covering 1.7 million square feet. It is set to become a welcoming cultural and lifestyle hub for art, culture and fashion that will complement the city’s world-renowned cultural offering and support its vibrant events calendar. Many brands are debuting in Scotland for the first time at St James Quarter - The Alchemist, & Other Stories, Everyman Cinema, Stradivarius, Bershka, and Pull&Bear to name a few. With these new additions as well as classic favourites and unique destinations like the one-of-a-kind Bonnie & Wild Food Hall, St James Quarter reinforces Edinburgh’s position as Scotland’s cosmopolitan lifestyle capital. Roomzzz Aparthotel, Toca Social, Flight Club, Cos and SpaceNK are due to open 2023.

W Hotel

W Hotels W Hotels is an American upscale lifestyle hotel chain owned by Marriott International that is marketed towards a younger age group. History W Hotels was launched in 1998 with W New York, a conversion of the former Doral Inn hotel on Lexingto ...

will have a new hotel in the centre of the development opening at the end of 2023.

Transportation

The development is situated close to both

Edinburgh Waverley railway station Edinburgh Waverley railway station (also known simply as Waverley; gd, Waverley Dhùn Èideann) is the principal railway station serving Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after Glasgow Central. It is the north ...

and St Andrew Square & York Place tram stops, along with multiple bus stops close by.

References

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