Kirkgate Shopping Centre Development

Yorkshire Post

James Pitt, managing director for Yorkshire and the North East at Muse, outside the Kirkgate Shopping Centre in Bradford. The developer is preparing plans to demolish the shopping centre and create a city village of 1,000 homes on the site.

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00:00 I'm James Pitt, I'm the Regional Managing Director for Muse Places based in our Leeds

00:08 office covering Yorkshire and the North East.

00:12 So we've been working with Bradford Council for a number of years to deliver the One City

00:17 Park office building which is due to complete in September this year.

00:22 It's been a really great close partnership and through that partnership we've entered

00:28 into discussions as the Development Manager for ECF, English Cities Fund, a joint venture

00:35 between Muse, LNG and Homes England to explore the possibilities for bringing forward the

00:43 redevelopment of the Kirkgate Shopping Centre and the Oslo Market.

00:48 The plan there is to create a city village, so city centre living for the people of Bradford

00:54 and the community of Bradford and really invigorate this part of town and bring life and living

01:01 back into the town to create a 24 hour city.

01:04 There's so much happening in Bradford at the moment, One City Park, proposals for the Kirkgate

01:12 Shopping Centre and city village, the Daly Street markets which are close to completion

01:18 and Bradford Live which will be opening later this year.

01:22 It's definitely a city on the up, we're a city of culture in 2025, it's an exciting

01:28 time to be working with Bradford Council, West Yorkshire Combined Authority and our

01:34 partners at LNG and Homes England.

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