St Stephens Shopping Center (Hull)

Having been to the new St Stephens shopping centre just yesterday, and having ventured round a bit more of it, I figure the time has come to review it... The shopping centre opened in September 2007, as part of a regeneration project in Hull, which included the development of the city's transport interchange alongside, & the re-location of the Hull Truck Theatre. The centre is beautifully designed, with the glass roof representing a giant wave, but, whilst the design may LOOK good, it is fundamentally flawed in as much as the doors at either end are in a direct line, creating a 'wind tunnel' effect, giving rise to the local nickname 'St ...  Read the complete review

St Stephens shopping centre is the newest shopping centre opened in Kingston Upon Hull. It is a monster of a building in the Centre of the city. Hull really needed a large modern shopping centre to attract some of the bigger names in retailing that were absent from the City. It was opened in September 2007 and was no where near the finished article. The new building is very modern and it is interlinked to the transprt interchange, and the new Hull Truck Theatre. It has made a big differnce this area of the city centre. An area that was very dated now looks very modern and has the new focal point of the city centre. When it was first opened there was ...  Read the complete review

i really do think the st stephens center in hull is a real disipiontment to hull. i think it is exstremley cold, i recon they made it so cold to make you go into the stores so you see things that make you think ''oo that looks nice''. they could of made a much better job. however the design is fantastic and the layout is really eye catching to make you want to go in. on the other hand they have dropped the car parking spaces from 3 hours to 2 hours. over all it is a very clever designed building with a log looking cafe up stairs but it is ever so small but ...  Read the complete review

The building of the St Stephen’s Shopping Complex had been underway for a couple of years. It was conceived as part of the City’s regeneration and streamlining. For someone like me, who has lived in Hull 55 years, it has been interesting to see, though a little poignant at times. MY MEMORIES When I was a child I attended St Stephen’s church which was situated on Spring Street. There had been a much grander St Stephens Church nearby but this had fallen with Hitler’s bombing campaign of World War Two. All that was left on this site was a small grassy area and a couple of grave stones. When we would cut across this site as children it was hard to ...  Read the complete review