Cascades Shopping Centre

Cascades Shopping Centre is an enclosed shopping centre in the city centre of Portsmouth on the South Coast of England. It has a wide range of High Street retailers, and its own multi-storey car park connecting straight into the malls by lifts and stairs. The building contract, described variously as worth £40 million, £45 million or £50 million, was won in 1987 by Taylor Woodrow Construction. As originally designed, the shopping centre had 300,000 square feet (28, 000 m2) of retail space on a site covering 6.5 acres (2.6 ha) overall. The anchor tenant was British Home Stores, with an 80,000-square-foot (7, 400 m2) shop; existing city-centre stores belonging to C&A, Littlewoods and Marks & Spencer were expanded into the new centre. A 600-vehicle multi-storey car park was built into the centre, which also had a food court. Work began on the centre in May 1987 and it opened in September 1989. The site was previously occupied by Charlotte Street and Moores Square, where a regular street market was held. The city council had announced that the stalls would be moved to a new location at the end of February 1987, but by late April – when redevelopment work was underway – they had still not been relocated. The Centre had a £20m redevelopment of the ground and lower ground floors during 2006/2007. The food hall was converted to shopping floorspace and the open atrium above it was

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