Hull’s Fruit Market has today received a cash boost after a successful bid to the Coastal Communities Fund. The £700,000 grant will see the ever-popular Fruit at 62-63 Humber Street refurbished across all three floors and transformed into a multi-use arts and performance venue with attached gallery and café. The top two floors, not currently…

Yorkshire’s first gin bar and distillery is to add to the exciting spirit of regeneration flowing through Hull’s rapidly-evolving Fruit Market. Humber Street Distillery Co is the brainchild of Lee Kirman and Charlotte Bailey, who have rejuvenated the nearby Minerva pub, making it one of East Yorkshire’s most popular hostelries. Inspired by the surge in…

Hull’s Fruit Market area has a new window to the world, showcasing the exciting development of the city’s first urban village. The relaunched website www.fruitmarkethull.co.uk is the place to go to find out all about Hull’s waterside quarter, which is undergoing an exciting transformation under the city’s most significant urban regeneration project. The refreshed website…

Independent vintage fashion brand Poorboy Boutique is to open in Hull’s fashionable Fruit Market area. Poorboy Boutique will be the first new retail offering to open in Humber Street in the heart of the Fruit Market, as the area becomes established as a shopping and leisure destination. Specialising in original brand classics such as Barbour;…

This Friday (February 3), the latest addition to Hull’s visual arts scene will open to the public for the first time. Humber Street Gallery is a new contemporary art space being opened as part of the Hull UK City of Culture programme. Located in Hull’s Fruit Market cultural quarter, the three storey gallery in a…

Wykeland Beal has revealed its vision for Humber Street in Hull’s Fruit Market, the £80m rejuvenation of the city centre’s waterside being led out by Wykeland Group and Beal Homes in partnership with Hull City Council ahead of Hull’s year as UK City of Culture in 2017. Humber Street will be the retail and leisure…

The owner of the newest addition to the rebirth of Hull’s Fruit Market district says he wants to make it the flagship for the business. Tim Sinclair has branched out from York and Leeds to bring the popular Ambiente Tapas brand to Hull’s rapidly-evolving waterside quarter. Mr Sinclair, who owns the business with his partner…

The owners of the first new venue in the heart of Hull’s Fruit Market say they want to help to make the area a must-visit part of “destination Hull”. Butler Whites has opened in a converted former fruit and veg warehouse in Humber Street, adding to the exciting regeneration of the waterfront district which is…