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Leeds
Shopping
With over a thousand stores, five shopping centres and a market, Leeds has been dubbed ‘the Knightsbridge of the North’. With all the leading retailers, designer boutiques, department stores and independent stores, the majority of tastes and wallets are catered for.
The Victoria Quarter is a block comprising the County Arcade, Cross Arcade, Queen Victoria Street and King Edward Street, covered with a stained glass roof and home to Leeds’ most up-market retailers. The Victoria Quarter was built in about 1900, much of its interior from marble, and with mosaics adorning the walls and ceiling, but the street itself dates back to the thirteenth-century. The Quarter is now home to more than seventy stores, including the first Harvey Nichols outside London and the tenth Louis Vuitton. Other units are leased by FCUK, Vivienne Westwood and Hugo Boss.
The Shopping Quarter contains most of the city’s department stores and larger chains. Briggate, a fully pedestrianised shopping street, is the place to find the major high street stores and supermarkets, as well as a number of quaint eighteenth-century pubs.
The Corn Exchange was built in the middle of the nineteenth-century, and opened for trade as a shopping centre in 1990. The Grade I listed building is now home to a variety of shops, including Ark and Eva, but is also used to host exhibitions, music events and an annual fashion show. Other historical buildings in this area are currently being renovated, and the area is becoming known as a cosmopolitan part of the city.
Leeds Kirkgate Market is a Grade I listed building, and the second largest covered market in Europe, with 800 stalls and over 100,000 visitors each week. Stalls sell a range of traditional and exotic food, and more.
The Leeds Shopping Plaza covers 270,000-sq/ft of land and is home to major retailers, such as H&M, Boots and Virgin Megastore. The centre can be found in the city centre on Grosvenor Mall.
The award-winning White Rose Shopping Centre opened in 1997, and is now home to over a hundred stores, including Primark, Woolworths and Next. The centre is located off Junction 28 of the M62, has its own bus station and nearly five thousand free parking spaces. There is a food court on the upper floor, comprising numerous cafés, bars and restaurants. The centre is open seven days a week, staying open until 9pm on Thursdays.
The Light is a designer fashion shopping centre, also housing a multi-screen cinema, gym and a 4* hotel. For those on a budget, The Merrion Centre contains cheaper stores and supermarkets, as well as a number of offices, a bowling alley, a nightclub and pubs.
A new shopping quarter is planned for the city, and £700 million has already been allocated for the 1.2 million-sq/ft development on the site either side of Eastgate.
The Victoria Quarter is a block comprising the County Arcade, Cross Arcade, Queen Victoria Street and King Edward Street, covered with a stained glass roof and home to Leeds’ most up-market retailers. The Victoria Quarter was built in about 1900, much of its interior from marble, and with mosaics adorning the walls and ceiling, but the street itself dates back to the thirteenth-century. The Quarter is now home to more than seventy stores, including the first Harvey Nichols outside London and the tenth Louis Vuitton. Other units are leased by FCUK, Vivienne Westwood and Hugo Boss.
The Shopping Quarter contains most of the city’s department stores and larger chains. Briggate, a fully pedestrianised shopping street, is the place to find the major high street stores and supermarkets, as well as a number of quaint eighteenth-century pubs.
The Corn Exchange was built in the middle of the nineteenth-century, and opened for trade as a shopping centre in 1990. The Grade I listed building is now home to a variety of shops, including Ark and Eva, but is also used to host exhibitions, music events and an annual fashion show. Other historical buildings in this area are currently being renovated, and the area is becoming known as a cosmopolitan part of the city.
Leeds Kirkgate Market is a Grade I listed building, and the second largest covered market in Europe, with 800 stalls and over 100,000 visitors each week. Stalls sell a range of traditional and exotic food, and more.
The Leeds Shopping Plaza covers 270,000-sq/ft of land and is home to major retailers, such as H&M, Boots and Virgin Megastore. The centre can be found in the city centre on Grosvenor Mall.
The award-winning White Rose Shopping Centre opened in 1997, and is now home to over a hundred stores, including Primark, Woolworths and Next. The centre is located off Junction 28 of the M62, has its own bus station and nearly five thousand free parking spaces. There is a food court on the upper floor, comprising numerous cafés, bars and restaurants. The centre is open seven days a week, staying open until 9pm on Thursdays.
The Light is a designer fashion shopping centre, also housing a multi-screen cinema, gym and a 4* hotel. For those on a budget, The Merrion Centre contains cheaper stores and supermarkets, as well as a number of offices, a bowling alley, a nightclub and pubs.
A new shopping quarter is planned for the city, and £700 million has already been allocated for the 1.2 million-sq/ft development on the site either side of Eastgate.
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