Steel erection under
way on the leisure
block
The right time for steel
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April 19
Warrington is perhaps best
known for its Rugby League
team, the Wolves, one of the
founding members of the
Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895 and
the only one that has played every subsequent
season in the top flight.
However, the town has plans to become
a retail and leisure destination, no mean feat
when you consider the proximity of Liverpool
and Manchester, both of which are only 20
miles away.
The town already has a major draw card
in the shape of its award-winning market that
dates back to medieval times, and which was
recently voted the nation’s best small indoor
market.
It is currently housed in a temporary
building, erected so that the original structure
could be demolished to make room for a
brand new hall.
The new market hall forms one part of
the new Time Square development, a £110M
mixed-use scheme, which will eventually
help Warrington Borough Council realise its
plans to regenerate a large swathe of the town
centre.
Overall, the Time Square development
consists of four steel-framed buildings, a
leisure block accommodating retail and
restaurant outlets on the ground floor and
a 13-screen cinema complex above, a fourstorey
9,200m2 council office, a two-storey
Retail/leisure
In the second of our retail and leisure based regeneration
projects, Martin Cooper reports from Time Square in Warrington.
The market hall's roof
will feature a centrallypositioned
roof light
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