Cornmill Shopping Centre

Cornmill Shopping Centre
Location Darlington, England
Coordinates 54°31′32.4″N 1°33′13.3″W / 54.525667°N 1.553694°W / 54.525667; -1.553694Coordinates: 54°31′32.4″N 1°33′13.3″W / 54.525667°N 1.553694°W / 54.525667; -1.553694
Opening date 1992
Management Susan Young[1]
Owner Moorfield
No. of stores and services Over 40
No. of anchor tenants 1
Total retail floor area 220,000 sq ft (20,000 m2)
No. of floors 2
Parking 402 spaces

Cornmill Shopping Centre (The Cornmill) is a shopping centre located on Priestgate in central Darlington, England. It is the main shopping centre in the town, with over 40 shops, including Primark (its anchor store), Next, HMV, Waterstone's, W H Smith, Topshop and Tesco Express. The centre is set over two levels and covers over 220,000 sq ft (20,000 m2).[2] It also has a multi-storey car park with a 400 car capacity.[2]

Food outlets include a number of independent traders, as well as Burger King, Costa Coffee and Greggs.[3]

Site

The main centre comprises 58 retail units utilising a bridge link over Priestgate, creating one continuous mall at lower ground level and an additional lower ground retail floor.[4] The property is freehold.[4] It receives a weekly footfall of 125,000 people.[4] Next pay an annual rent of £325,000 for their 22,000 square foot store.[5]

History

Building work began in 1989 following the demolition of existing buildings including the Pied Piper public house and the Co-operative store.[6] One of the key phases of the building work for the two-tier mall was the pedestrian walkway over Priestgate.[6] The centre's name was chosen in a competition by Durham student, Richard Blair.[6] The Cornmill opened on 27 August 1992.[4]

Sections of the BBC sketch show The Fast Show were filmed there.[7]

In December 2006 it was purchased from Investream by the Moorfield Real Estate Fund for £84.5 million.[8]

Extension of the shopping centre with a Debenhams department store was planned for 2015-6 but this scheme has now been shelved.[9]

References

  1. Richardson, Andy (28 August 2012). "Susan Young: A life in retail". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Press Ahead" (PDF).
  3. "Cornmill Official Website".
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Moorfield".
  5. "Moorfield".
  6. 1 2 3 McLauchlan, Karen (1 September 2012). "20 years of shopping". Evening Gazette.
  7. "Cornmill vouches for Lorna's shopping spree". The Northern Echo. 3 September 2012.
  8. "Moorfield".
  9. Richardson, Andy (25 October 2012). "Debenhams to take over newspaper's HQ". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
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