Ten stores to open doors at £70m Beverley Flemingate shopping centre TEN stores will open their doors at a £70m new retail and leisure centre in Beverley this month. The names of the first shops to open at the Flemingate Centre on Tuesday, October 27, have now been confirmed. Anchor retailer Debenhams will be employing 100 people at its 40,000sq ft new concept store at the centre, near Beverley Minster. Also opening on day one will be The Entertainer, Trespass, Deli No.1, Costa, Patisserie Valerie and Card Factory. Discount high-street retailer Poundland, which has just opened a new store at Wingfield Way in Beverley, will also be opening at the centre. Two local independent retailers, which already have businesses in the town centre – jewellers Guest & Philips and menswear retailer Bolo – will be opening second units at Flemingate. More venues will be opening soon at the centre, which is being developed as part of a £120m regeneration project by Hull-based Wykeland Group. H&M has confirmed it will be opening the following week, on Tuesday, November 3. Julian Minshall, chairman of Beverley and District Chamber of Trade, said the new development is an exciting addition to the town. He said: "People are really looking forward to what the Flemingate site will bring to Beverley. It is exciting that these stores are all opening at once. "There is a phased opening so people are also looking forward to what will come next." The major development brings a huge commercial investment to the town. Mr Minshall said: "It is good to see a major investment of this size in Beverley. "It will be another chapter in the town's development." The development will create 162,561sq ft of retail space and 700 new jobs. A £5m Premier Inn, which will provide 80 beds, is set to open shortly, creating 35 new jobs. Fitting out is now taking place on the six-screen Parkway Cinema, which is due to open in early December, with a seating capacity of 1,000. The Flemingate Centre will have a 500-space multi-storey car park, which will be the largest in Beverley. A Destination Marketing Organisation, funded by developers Wykeland Group, will be launched in coming weeks to attract visitors to the town as a whole. According to location specialists CACI, Beverley's catchment and potential spend on groceries is expected to grow by 60 per cent as a result of the Flemingate development. A free shuttle bus will run on Saturdays to assist the flow of shoppers between Flemingate and the town centre. The location, previously a factory site, is also the new home for East Riding College. The college opened its £14m new campus last month. Some 130 homes have also been built at the site, which also has planning permission for offices. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/stor...tory-27954414-detail/story.html#ixzz3oFkHm2Sx
13 days too go (site video for anyone who's interested)... http://www.wykeland.co.uk/developments/flemingate/
It started so well with Debenhams... It didn't take long for card factory and pound land to follow Get some proper shops.
Does Beverley really need this, it's been a while since I went there due to the fact that I always get stuck in traffic, it's one of those places that just seems to get blocked up going in on an average day. I can't imagine what the traffic will be like when that opens, unless they've done lots of work on the roads too.
I think having a cinema that will regularly play a much wider breadth of films than your average multiplex, as well bringing a new live music venue, alongside a range of shops to complement the town's independent is no bad thing. As someone who grew up in a village just outside Bev, it was always apparent the town lacked many shops that appealed to men and specifically young men, so H&M, Bollo and Debenhams is a good start. I'm sure more retailers will be tempted. Beverley is a growing town and investment of any kind shouldn't be knocked locally. I realise some people will think this will pull footfall/custom from Hull, but I think it's as much as an opportunity for Hull as a negative. With lots of new visitors expected to the region over 2017, surely it is better for them to remember East Yorkshire as a great place to visit and stay, meaning more people come and pump more money into the local economy.
It's great for the town, for starters it's jacked up the value of my house as it's just around the corner. Winner. It's gonna be decent though I'm not sure why we need a poundland, there aren't any poor people living in Beverley. They're all lynched and quartered.
I'm not sure Sterling's comment was entirely serious... The Humber Keel's available if anyone fancies it?
The railway line in Beverley has always been a bit of a dividing line with the two estates next to it, all the posh bastards are a ways off from there
Not been back for a while but I used to live opposite Humber Keel, I've been told there's a load of new flats for the elderly round there so it's been slightly gentrified also this new development isn't that far off
Have a mate who lives just up the road from Humber Keel, he tells me there's lot of dole'ys and single parents. It seems to be the reverse of an oasis.
I'm good, but I'm not a miracle worker. I heard it was being turned into a pub for those that are favourable to the same sex.
