Work has begun on a huge new Zara store at Meadowhall, as the fashion giant prepares to move within the shopping centre. Zara is set to move from its current home on Upper High Street at the Sheffield mega mall to a new 35,000 sqft store on The Avenue, which was formerly Park Lane. Meadowhall bosses this week said the new Zara store, at what was House of Fraser, will sell an ‘expanded range’ across its womenswear, menswear and childrenswear sections. They said it would also include the ‘latest...
Work is underway to re-lay new granite paving in a flagship city centre development - but it could take two months. Workers are replacing a swathe of asphalt on Wellington, Cambridge and Charles streets that appeared after cobbles were torn up to run pipes to a new food hall on Cambridge Street. Readers voiced dismay at how it was left in October. In March, Sean McClean, director of regeneration and development at Sheffield Council, said he shared people’s frustrations at the six-month wait to...
China Mini Market and Ji The Chicken Shop have opened on Smithford Way
Back in the 1980s, there was no Meadowhall or internet. Sign up for newsletters from The Star And that meant if you wanted to go shopping, the place to go was Sheffield city centre. That was the 1980s in Sheffield. In those days, Fargate was packed with shoppers, and The Moor was similarly busy, while the route between the two, along Pinstone Street, also remained bustling. Similarly places like West Street were thriving. We have put together a picture gallery which shows some of the best loved...
Between April 7-9, a teenage boy was left fighting for life and two men, aged 21 and 29, were injured in separate stabbings in Sheffield. Yet just a matter of days later, when South Yorkshire Police carried out a test purchase operation in the city centre, they found that two shops were prepared to sell blades to children. A total of 17 shops were visited and 14 passed the test - refusing to sell knives and vapes to underage customers. Sign up for newsletters from The Star But two shops failed...
The opening of a new ‘flagship’ Sheffield city centre hotel with a rooftop bar and restaurant has been delayed. The new Radisson Blu hotel on Pinstone Street, opposite the Peace Gardens, was scheduled to welcome its first guests on June 10. Booking was due to open during the week commencing March 25, yet nearly a month later it is still not yet possible to book a room at the upmarket 154-bedroom hotel. Now Sheffield City Council has confirmed that the opening has been pushed back slightly. ...
It is a popular Sheffield city centre bar and cafe - and now it has a new look. Bosses at The Forum, on Devonshire Street, have just finished a refurbishment of the venue, which has been running in Sheffield for 32 years. Get the latest headlines delivered straight to your inbox, with The Star’s free emails We took a guided tour of the venue, and our video shows what has changed at the site. Take a look and see the changes for yourself. The Forum, next to Devonshire Green, has been a fixture in...
Shoppers have been flocking to Søstrene Grene at Lower Precinct Shopping Centre
Brooklyn Vegan reports that the trendy urban clothing brand known FUGAZI is opening up a flagship store on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The store, located at 55 Canal Street, will sell the brands' jackets, hats, shoes, and pants—some of which are adorned with the word "FUGAZI" in big block letters. — Read the rest
A funny video shows the moment a badger was seen indulging in some window shopping as it casually walked around a shopping centre. The mammal was seen happily trotting around the shopping centre in the early hours of April 22, checking out the items for sale in the shop windows. The bizarre moment was captured at Wolverhampton's Mander Centre shopping complex. Greggs manager Gemma Chew, who shared the video, said: Gemma said: "It's literally the funniest thing I've seen, just for the fact that...
A funny video shows the moment a badger was seen indulging in some window shopping as it casually walked around a shopping centre. The mammal was seen happily trotting around the shopping centre in the early hours of April 22, checking out the items for sale in the shop windows. The bizarre moment was captured at Wolverhampton's Mander Centre shopping complex. Greggs manager Gemma Chew, who shared the video, said: Gemma said: "It's literally the funniest thing I've seen, just for the fact that...
At a meeting of Derry city and Strabane District Council’s Environment and Regeneration Committee on Wednesday, April 17, DfC’s North West Development Officer, Paul Mc Naught, said the £5.1 million project would “transform a number of streets adjacent with the historic City Walls”. He added: “It is the Department’s largest investment in public realm project since the completion of the Guildhall Square and Waterloo Place scheme in 2010. “Initial considerations for this project actually started in...