Wykeland Group’s 162,561 sq ft Flemingate, East Yorkshire’s newest shopping and leisure destination, has opened to the public. Flemingate’s line-up of brands is led by Debenhams’ flagship department store, and also includes The Entertainer, Wilko, Card Factory, and Guest & Philips, a Beverley-based jeweller. Complementing the new stores are Costa, Deli No.1, and Patisserie Valerie, which has opened a café on Debenhams’ first floor.
The initial phase of Flemingate will be followed on November 9 by the opening of Bolo, the local independent fashion brand, and H&M, with Trespass and Poundland following in mid-November.
In addition, the new six-screen, 1,000-seat, Parkway cinema launches in December, with more new shops and restaurants joining the line-up in the spring, including Outfit.
An 80-room Premier Inn, 500-space multi-storey car park, the largest in Beverley, a new campus for East Riding College, and 130 homes complete the £120 million Flemingate development.
Commenting on the opening of Flemingate, Dominic Gibbons, Managing Director of Wykeland Group, said: “We are delighted to have opened today. Flemingate looks fantastic, our retailers and cafés have done a spectacular job, and the feedback from visitors has been overwhelmingly positive. Flemingate has been ten years in the making, but today is a just reward for all of the hard work from everyone involved.
“Flemingate was conceived to be very much a part of Beverley, to extend the town centre, add even more reasons to visit the town, and to provide a further boost to Beverley’s economy. Today is a major step in achieving that, and we have more to come.”