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Happy Birthday Meadowhall!

Friday 3rd September 2010
One of the region's most famous shopping centres (and one familiar to most of us in Chesterfield) celebrates it's 20th birthday this weekend.

Meadowhalls Dome Under ConstructionMeadowhall will open it's doors for the 7,000th time on Saturday, marking the event with a huge party on site which will feature acts including X Factor finalists Jamie Archer and Lloyd Daniels, the Tweenies, who will play a huge Pass the Parcel game, and children's characters Bearamy and Harry the Haddock. Well known local Sculptor, 'Stone face', will be on hand to create a bespoke work of art, and is promising to take his inspiration from customers wandering past!.

Currently the sixth largest mall in the UK, the centre was built on the site of a former steelworks. Constructed by Bovis, the most recognisable feature is of course the  famous 'dome' (construction pictured above). Now occupying 1,260,000 sq ft it’s home to 280 stores, 30 restaurants and an 11 screen cinema.

But it's not just a pretty face ... it's the first UK Shopping Centre to develop an onsite Resource and Recovery Centre (RRC), which sorts, separates and sends material for recycling. In 2006 a rainwater harvesting system was constructed which now supplies non-drinking water to the centre and its landscape. It's also the first shopping centre in the UK and the first location in Sheffield to install electric car charging points.

Meadowhalls 20th Birthday

Richard Pinfold
, Marketing Director at Meadowhall, commented, "We’re very proud to be celebrating twenty years and to mark the occasion we are staging a birthday party with a difference - hosting a day for all the family to enjoy."

He said there's also a lot to look forward to in the coming year, "Meadowhall's 20th year promises to be the biggest and best yet with some ground-breaking events coming to the Centre. October will see the launch of Meadowhall's very first fashion month, as the Centre will see an influx of the biggest names in the fashion world as we aim to really put Yorkshire on the fashion map!".

Events will be happening all day on Saturday 4th September, from 10am. 

 

 

 

 

 

 






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