Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, Metro Shopping Centre - nice 1980s Dennis postcard

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Metro Shopping Mall, Gateshead - Cameron Walk, looking west
• Publisher:  Dennis (G.022001L)
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The MetroCentre (styled corporately as metrocentre and on road signs as Metro Centre) is a shopping centre in the United Kingdom. Located in Gateshead, near Newcastle upon Tyne, on a former industrial site close to the River Tyne, the Metrocentre opened in stages, with the first phase opening on 28 April 1986 and the official opening on 14 October 1986. It has more than 340 shops occupying 2,092,000 square feet (194,400 m²) of retail floor space, making it the largest shopping and leisure centre in the UK^[3]. Additional retail space is available in the adjoining Metro Retail Park and MetrOasis giving Metrocentre a total of 2,092,000 sq ft or retail space.

Metrocentre has five main malls; Red, Green, Blue, Yellow and Platinum. It also has themed shopping areas featuring independent retailers; The Village, formerly known as the Antiques Village, The Forum, formerly known as the Roman Forum, and Qube, formerly known as the Mediterranean Village, and houses over 50 restaurants and cafes.

The first phase of Metrocentre was opened on 28 April 1986 - the red mall. At the time it featured a large Carrefour supermarket, which later became Gateway and subsequently Asda.

The Metro Centre also featured the first out of town Marks & Spencer.

In the 1990s, Asda moved from Metrocentre to a larger stand-alone store nearby, facilitating the redevelopment of the Red Mall.

Metrocentre's construction was financed by the Church Commissioners of England, and was masterminded by Sir John Hall's company, Cameron Hall Developments, the ground upon which it is built was purchased for a mere £100,000 in the early '70s. Access to the development was facilitated by an urban development grant from the Department of the Environment and the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. In October 1995, the centre was sold to Capital Shopping Centres for £364m, although the Church Commissioners retained a 10% stake.

Reflecting its Church of England origins, Metrocentre is one of the few European shopping centres to have its own chapel and resident full-time chaplain. Services are held on special occasions such as Mothering Sunday, Remembrance Sunday and Christmas.

Metrocentre is part of the 'Capital Shopping Centres' group.

Asda's move out of the main centre was planned so that its former store could be demolished to make way for an extension and refurbishment of the Red Mall. The new Red Mall, anchored by a new Debenhams department store, opened on 6 October 2004. The refurbishment programme also included a new Public Transport Interchange at the end of the Blue Mall. It replaced the old bus station and was intended to provide improved bus links to many parts of North East England and accommodate coach services from elsewhere in the UK. The new interchange features electronic display boards and a new waiting room at the MetroCentre railway station. Metrocentre is not directly connected to the Tyne & Wear Metro System though regular bus shuttle services provide connections to Monument, Central Station and Gateshead Metro stations. The main line rail link also provides direct access to neighbouring Newcastle upon Tyne city centre. (see Transport Links below).

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