Shopping & Recreation High quality, great places to shop, relax and socialise in - that’s what we will bring to West Bromwich and the surrounding area.
Over £350 million of retail-led regeneration is being delivered right now. This will change perceptions of the area to a leading shopping and leisure destination.
Our ambitious plans will help create a lively and vibrant environment linked with well integrated, exceptionally designed public realm rejuvenating the area into a dynamic place that it hasn’t been for many years.
West Bromwich and its surrounding area is an ethnically diverse, cultural melting pot with a large catchment population. Around 2.23 million people live within 30 minutes drive from West Bromwich Town Centre where almost one million sq ft of new and refurbished floorspace will be developed within the next 5 years.
The leisure and recreation hub will include a major shopping centre anchored by a Tesco Extra Store, plus a 90,000 sq ft department store, 10,700 sq ft of leisure facilities, a 6 screen cinema, a range of cafés and bars as well as 217,000 sq ft of high street shops.
The proposed refurbishment and expansion of Stockland Halladale’s New Queens Square Shopping Centre will build on this and includes 22 stylish new apartments and a new high quality multi-storey car park with 850 spaces.
- Town Square West – a vibrant, high density mixed-use development that will improve connectivity to the Town Square and its environments including leisure, residential and commercial uses
- Eastern Gateway – independent retail and food outlets in a welcoming environment
- Major 24 hour leisure and shopping centre
- New award winning bus station, opened April 2002
- West Coast Mainline – with frequent trains to London Euston (every 30 minutes)
- Dartmouth Park – a large Urban Park in close proximity to the Town Centre
- Sandwell Park Farm – a fully restored 18th century farm, a huge visitor attraction located within Sandwell Valley
- Green Bridge – a proposed initiative to link the Town Centre with Dartmouth Park and Sandwell Valley which will help promote strong connectivity within the Town Centre
- The Public – major, new interactive art gallery in the heart of the Town Centre, including exciting spaces for creative businesses, events and exhibitions -opened 28th June 2008
Retail in regeneration areas outperformed all other types of retail property in 2006.
(Investment Property Databank (IPD) Regeneration Index Summer 2007)