Cascades Shopping Centre
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Cascades Shopping Centre is an enclosed shopping centre in the city centre of Portsmouth
on the South Coast of England
. It has a wide range of high street
retailers, and its own multi-storey car park
connecting straight into the malls by lifts and stairs. Work began on the Centre in Summer 1987 and it opened on September 26, 1989.
The Centre had a £20m redevelopment of the ground and lower ground floors during 2006/2007. The food hall was converted to shopping floorspace and the open atrium above it was filled in to provide an extra 2,500 square metres of retail space and 54 additional car park spaces. The new mall was opened by the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth Councilor Mike Blake at an official ceremony on May 29, 2007.
However, the demolition of the Tricorn Centre and the delay on the redevelopment of the area by Portsmouth city council, has created a large car park immediately outside; whilst the closure of Woolworths has rendered a large retail unit unused since the end of 2008. This has made the redevelopment, with its consequent loss of smaller shops and food outlets, largely unnecessary.
Portsmouth
Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...
on the South Coast of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It has a wide range of high street
High Street
High Street, or the High Street, is a metonym for the generic name of the primary business street of towns or cities, especially in the United Kingdom. It is usually a focal point for shops and retailers in city centres, and is most often used in reference to retailing...
retailers, and its own multi-storey car park
Multi-storey car park
A multi-storey car-park is a building designed specifically to be for car parking and where there are a number of floors or levels on which parking takes place...
connecting straight into the malls by lifts and stairs. Work began on the Centre in Summer 1987 and it opened on September 26, 1989.
The Centre had a £20m redevelopment of the ground and lower ground floors during 2006/2007. The food hall was converted to shopping floorspace and the open atrium above it was filled in to provide an extra 2,500 square metres of retail space and 54 additional car park spaces. The new mall was opened by the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth Councilor Mike Blake at an official ceremony on May 29, 2007.
However, the demolition of the Tricorn Centre and the delay on the redevelopment of the area by Portsmouth city council, has created a large car park immediately outside; whilst the closure of Woolworths has rendered a large retail unit unused since the end of 2008. This has made the redevelopment, with its consequent loss of smaller shops and food outlets, largely unnecessary.
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