Location Hamilton, Scotland Website Official Website Phone +44 1698 284391 | Parking 428 spaces Opened 1984 Number of stores and services 20 | |
Address New Cross Shopping Centre, Lamb St, Hamilton ML3 6AH, UK Similar Regent Shopping Centre, Motherwell Shopping Centre, The Academy Shopping, The Forge Shopping Centre, The Mercat Shopping Centre | ||
The New Cross Centre in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire is an indoor shopping mall in the town centre. It was built to complement its neighbour Regent Shopping Centre which is a hundred yards away. It has distinctive spiral access ramps leading into and out of its integral multi-storey car park.
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History
The New Cross Centre was built in 1982-3 by John Laing plc and opened in January 1984, originally one half of the ground floor was a Fine Fare supermarket which had an in-store bakery, although commonplace now, it was a first as no supermarket in the area had this feature, a number of changes started to happen around the centre in 1995 when this supermarket was halved in size (it was a Somerfield by this point) and Argos moved into the newly created space. The centre was renovated completely in 2004 when the supermarket closed down completely and was split up into shop units, a new extension was also added which enlarged the car park and added a new upper level space, hitherto, this shopping centre was all on one level, with an escalator leading to the car park, this was demolished and new lifts replaced these during the 2004 refurbishments.
Location
The Centre is located on Regent Street in Hamilton Town Centre, the car park is accessed from Leechlee Road. Hamilton itself is a principal shopping destination, located to the south-east of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. The town has a population of around 50,000, with a population of around 350,000 living within 10 kilometres (6.2 mi).