The Gate is a retail and leisure complex in

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History

The venue takes its name from the street on which it stands, Newgate Street. It is part of the historic

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area of Newcastle. The noted concert hall the

Mayfair Ballroom Mayfair Ballroom was a ballroom and concert hall situated on Newgate Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The oblong room was built to hold 1,500 people and had a small stage along one of the longer walls.Cineworld Cinema and Aspers Casino. The Gate is also next to Newcastle's Chinatown; there is an entrance on Stowell Street. The Gate building was built to replace the 35-year-old, 7-storey Newgate House, which was home to the prolific music venue; The Mayfair club. Mood Bar opened on 28 November 2002, the same time as The Gate. The 19,235 m², £80 million venue was built by

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and the sculpture outside, "Ellipsis Eclipses", was designed by Danny Lane. The glass façade was designed by Space Decks Limited. The

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(later

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, now

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) was built to replace the 71-year-old Odeon/Paramount cinema on

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, which after the Gate's opening remained disused until its demolition in 2017. The Gate provided 400 new jobs when opened and a further 600 during construction. In 2004

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won a Lighting Design award for their work at The Gate. The Gate won the

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award for Best Commercial UK Mixed-Use Leisure Scheme, and the British Toilet Association awarded The Gate a Loo of the Year Award and awarded it five stars. In 2010 Jamie Ritblat's property company, Delancey, bought The Gate in a £900 million package of properties from PropInvest Group, in partnership with the

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. In 2012 The Gate was sold to the

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for £60 million.

Venues

;Entertainment * Aspers Casino * Cineworld Cinema * YumeWorld Family Entertainment Centre * Escape Newcastle - Escape Rooms * The CTRL Pad - Video Gaming Lounge * Game of Throwing - Axe-Throwing Range * Selfie Station ; Bars and nightclubs * JD Wetherspoons - The Keel Row * WonderBar ; Restaurants *

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* The Mayfair ;Retail * Vintage Vera - Second-hand Clothing

References

External links

* * 3D Pamoramas of The Gat
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