Freshney Place

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Freshney Place
Freshney Place Shopping Centre. - geograph.org.uk - 57018.jpg
Eastern parking Freshney Place
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LocationGrimsby
Coordinates53°33′58″N 0°05′11″W / 53.5662°N 0.0865°W / 53.5662; -0.0865
Opening date1968 as Riverhead Centre
OwnerCapreon,[1] formerly F&C REIT (subsidiary of Bank of Montreal)
No. of stores and services100
Total retail floor area46,450 m2[2]
No. of floors1
Websitewww.freshneyplace.co.uk
Expanded and renamed Freshney Place in 1989

Freshney Place is a shopping centre in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire.[3] Located in the centre of Grimsby it is visited annually by 400000 shoppers and employs over 2000 retail workers.[4] The centre houses over 100 stores,[4] with the anchor stores of , Marks and Spencer, Next and Primark and Deichmann and British Heart Foundation and Game from 2018.[5]

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, the Halifax Bank 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 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,[6] whose frontage ran along Victoria Street; they demolished the building and constructed a new store, linked to the centre.[citation needed]

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, the highway authority, 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.

Freshney Place 2008

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.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "'Underground problem' and Freshney Place sale put cinema in doubt". Grimsby Telegraph. 26 October 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  2. ^ "F&C REIT gets green light for UK leisure development". webcache.googleusercontent.com. Retrieved 1 April 2016.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "RoSPA Silver Award". Archived from the original on 26 September 2006. Retrieved 12 September 2006.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "£4.2m expansion plans unveiled for Grimsby's Freshney Place Shopping centre and Primark - freshney Place Shopping Center". www.freshneyplace.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Shopping Centres - Barker Proudlove". www.barkerproudlove.co.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
  6. ^ "Grimsby Evening Telegraph - Tuesday May 15, 2001 - family-trees.org.uk". Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  7. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-06. Retrieved 2012-12-25.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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