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Relaunched website puts Fruit Market regeneration in focus
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…
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Fashionable Fruit Market is the perfect fit for vintage boutique
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;…
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Creative community to join together at Flemingate
An innovative social enterprise is to provide a creative home for new, upcoming and established artists and designers at Beverley’s popular Flemingate centre. Designed to promote and develop creative individuals, THECREATIVELAB will provide cost-effective shared retail space for the creative community to display and sell their work in a fully-staffed retail environment, without the usual…
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Dead Bod to return to public display when Humber Street Gallery opens
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…
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Businesses join Wykeland in supporting Run With It education project
A Hull-based education project whose work has been underpinned by Wykeland Group for the past five years has now gained the support of a range of local businesses. Run With It, which is based at the KCOM Stadium, helps children improve literacy and numeracy through the power of sport. It was originally part of the…
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Fast-growing fitness brand limbers up for Flemingate opening
Beverley’s first 24-hour fitness club is coming to the Flemingate centre. Rapidly-expanding Anytime Fitness will offer 24/7 access to the club, which will benefit from an investment of more than £500,000 in fit-out and gym equipment. It will be the first Anytime Fitness club in East Yorkshire and occupy a 7,500 sq ft first-floor unit…
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Start of construction heralds exciting new era at Bridgehead for Centrica Storage
Construction has begun on new offices at the fast-growing Bridgehead business park which will open up an exciting new chapter for East Yorkshire-based Centrica Storage. The company – the UK’s leading gas storage business – will move its operational support base from Hedon, East Yorkshire, to purpose-built new offices at Bridgehead, which it will lease…
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Hull’s Fruit Market Flourishes As Wykeland Reveals Its Vision For Humber Street As A Home For Independent Brands
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…
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Ambiente Tapas owner aims to make new Fruit Market restaurant brand flagship
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…
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C4DI recognised as one of Yorkshire’s best commercial buildings
Wykeland Group’s spectacular Centre for Digital Innovation (C4DI) tech hub has been recognised as one of the region’s best commercial buildings. C4DI was shortlisted in the Commercial Space category of the Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business Awards, which celebrate the very best from the region’s business scene. Judges said C4DI had become a “wonderful addition”…