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Revealed: St Enoch’s vision for the future
 
 

THIS is the first glimpse of how the inside of Glasgow's St Enoch Centre will look after a £100million makeover.

The artist's impression highlights the cafe culture theme which is to be introduced to shoppers.

Centre owner Ivanhoe Cambridge believes the introduction of chic cafes will help create a bustling and cosmopolitan environment at the shopping mall.

Susan Nicol, general manager at St Enoch, said: "We want to transform St Enoch Centre into a 21st century shopping destination that will offer a retail and leisure experience which will be second to none."

The coffee bars are among a number of attractions planned as part of the upgrade at the centre, which opened in 1989 and attracts up to 20million shoppers a year.

There will also be more shops, a multi-screen cinema and a nightclub. Work has begun on a new entrance - a huge glass structure which will front onto Argyle Street.

Ivanhoe Cambridge hopes to launch the new-look mall before Christmas.

Publication date 16/04/08

Posted by: jim, Glasgow on 11:25am Wed 16 Apr 08
This Britains Got Talent Advert video is REALLY ANNOYING!
Posted by: Meep, Shawlands on 11:36am Wed 16 Apr 08
Meh, looks like any other shopping mall. Pity theres no space for that ice rink they promised......
Posted by: jim, Glasgow on 11:40am Wed 16 Apr 08
All they think about is Eat eat eat!Fast food this and that coffee shops etc etc.
Posted by: Pete, Glasgow on 12:08pm Wed 16 Apr 08
REVEALED: a tiny wee picture of a fast food stall!

A shopping mall with more shops (!) which will will offer a "second to none" array of cheap jeans shops, BHS and a tie rack!

Cannae see it...
Posted by: Pete, Glasgow on 12:13pm Wed 16 Apr 08
What a story! Would it not be easier to just photocopy the St Enoch press release and hand it out in Argyle Street?
Posted by: George Brown, glasgow on 4:09pm Wed 16 Apr 08
if the britain video is anything to go by,
No thanks
It would be, of course, a great help if shops were sold what people want
Posted by: weegielady, st enochs on 5:10pm Wed 16 Apr 08
is st enochs shopping mall still there? my my

why bother adding places to eat, and coffee shops, as someone says we dont go into town to eat we go to spend money on a specific item.

In fact, take yer @rses out of the city centre, its not 'all thaa' look at the pollution there, everywhere is mobbed, buses, taxis , jakies peeing in doorways, I havent ventured in city centre for a few years. unsafe.

I shop at Braehead and local supermarkets


hey folks feel that there is no market for this, there is already a designers mall nightmare about to go down the lavy pan if ye ask me, known as Silverburn, bummed up it was meant to be this wonderful place...

trendy and fashionable ? naw the shops are all posy rubbish and it feels too big and uninteresting a place to shop , all the shops are DEAD as dodos in Silverburn, cos folk living in Pollok urnae interetsed in Benetton ,prefer to just go home and make a mug of cofee as opposed to spending £3.99 for a latte at Costa Lot Coffee ...lol

Folk dont need posy doorways made of glass and state of the art places to sit and get fat. If am going shopping, I do that .Shop. Its old fashioned to stop and 'grab a coffee' or is it just me?

eat before ye go, no, I just want to get the hell out of there and home away fae mad crowds and scary traffic jams full of fumes etc

It's Glasgow -no Italy! We drink nescafe fae a mug we bought at Asda..

Weegies want low cost clothes, and less of these 'posers' shops for the posh
Posted by: Ian, Glasgow on 5:27pm Wed 16 Apr 08
weegielady wrote:
is st enochs shopping mall still there? my my why bother adding places to eat, and coffee shops, as someone says we dont go into town to eat we go to spend money on a specific item. In fact, take yer @rses out of the city centre, its not 'all thaa' look at the pollution there, everywhere is mobbed, buses, taxis , jakies peeing in doorways, I havent ventured in city centre for a few years. unsafe. I shop at Braehead and local supermarkets hey folks feel that there is no market for this, there is already a designers mall nightmare about to go down the lavy pan if ye ask me, known as Silverburn, bummed up it was meant to be this wonderful place... trendy and fashionable ? naw the shops are all posy rubbish and it feels too big and uninteresting a place to shop , all the shops are DEAD as dodos in Silverburn, cos folk living in Pollok urnae interetsed in Benetton ,prefer to just go home and make a mug of cofee as opposed to spending £3.99 for a latte at Costa Lot Coffee ...lol Folk dont need posy doorways made of glass and state of the art places to sit and get fat. If am going shopping, I do that .Shop. Its old fashioned to stop and 'grab a coffee' or is it just me? eat before ye go, no, I just want to get the hell out of there and home away fae mad crowds and scary traffic jams full of fumes etc It's Glasgow -no Italy! We drink nescafe fae a mug we bought at Asda.. Weegies want low cost clothes, and less of these 'posers' shops for the posh
Disagree

I was in Silverburn a couple of weeks ago and the place was heaving. I couldn't even get parked, even in the Tesco carpark. We also queued to get into Wagamama for some food.

Also not all 'Weegie's' want low cost clothes. I'd like to see more Designer shops in the City and I'm not posh.

Dahling
Posted by: weegielady, Silverbum on 5:43pm Wed 16 Apr 08
hi ian :)

i take it you went on a saturday? yes it is MOBBED in the external carparks, no pavements relaly badly thought out, and places to eat woudl be chocca i expect, but cloteehs chains shops I went near or wandered into where all dead NO staff at tills to even serve you and got GOT FOLLOWED AROUND DOROTHY PERKINS BY A "MAN" WHO WOKRS THERE, SAYING HELLOO NICE HOW ARE YOU? ETC DESPERATE FOR A SALE THE PINK CUSHION HUGGING BUFFOON

i wonder who the hell designed that dreadful carpark, the multi storey? have you been in it? and did you almost drive into anyone or misjudge the exit? hmm

go on a weekday it was dead, got served in argos right away, ughh I just dont like the layout and am a skint bargain huntin person on benefits as well

ps that eaterie place sounds like a dog thats just had pups, or them that used to sing Dancing Queen , "Wagamama " what next wetnosepapa?

plus Nowhere in SILVERBURN sells books, newspapers, Cds and stationary type things , I suppose this was Tescos doing, making sure no WH Smiths /Bookshops/ Virgin .hmv etc type of shops got to trade there?
Posted by: weegielady, glasgow on 5:57pm Wed 16 Apr 08
PS ANYWAY EBAY SELL DESIGNER CLOTHES,LOL, OK SO THEY ARE FAKE...
I MYSELF, DONT 'GET' THE CLOTHING THING. DONT SEE ANY POINT IN WEANS HAVING DESIGNER SHOPS, SPOILT WEE RATBAGS.

IE GAP/ NEXT

AS THEY GET RIPPED WHEN OUT PLAYING ANYWAY JUST THE SAME A T SHIRT FAE TESCO, WOULD PROB SET ME BACK £10 FOR A WEANS T SHIRT FAE NEXT, SPILL SOMETHING ON IT OR SHRINK IN WASH TO HALF ITS SIZE AND THAT RIP JUST THE SAME, YE KNOW WHAT BOYS ARE LIKE...

WEANS SHOULD GET WHAT THEY ARE GIVEN ,AND IF PARENTS STOP WASTING MONEY ON THESE RACKETTY DESIGNER CLOTHING PLACES WEANS WOULDNT GROW UP SO SPOILT

NO ONE REMEMBERS THE CLOTHES THEY WORE AS A WEAN WHEN THEY ARE ADULTS, THEY REMEMBER LIFE, EXCEPT IN EMBARRASSING PICS YER MAW TOOK..LOL..SO WHY DO PARENTS GIVE IN?

SO NO MORE EXPENSIVE TOGS FOR WEANS I SAY- BAN BRAND NAMES SHOPS 'I ONLY DRESS MY BRITNEY IN NEXT'

MA WEANS WEAR WARM CLEAN STUFF FAE THE CHEAPEST SHOP

I DRESS MA WEANS STYLISHLY AND SMARTLY AS THEY ARE ONLY WEANS THAT WNAT TO GO BIKES AND PLAY IN MUD AND CLIMB TREES ETC...AND PLUS IM NO INTO AW THAT , WEANS NEED LOVE AND ATTENTION AND WARM CLOTHES,NO H AND M ETC

CLOSE ST ENOCHS DOON AM AW ANGRY NOO lolol
Posted by: Jimbob, Edinburgh on 7:39pm Wed 16 Apr 08
weegielady wrote:
PS ANYWAY EBAY SELL DESIGNER CLOTHES,LOL, OK SO THEY ARE FAKE...
I MYSELF, DONT 'GET' THE CLOTHING THING. DONT SEE ANY POINT IN WEANS HAVING DESIGNER SHOPS, SPOILT WEE RATBAGS.

IE GAP/ NEXT

AS THEY GET RIPPED WHEN OUT PLAYING ANYWAY JUST THE SAME A T SHIRT FAE TESCO, WOULD PROB SET ME BACK £10 FOR A WEANS T SHIRT FAE NEXT, SPILL SOMETHING ON IT OR SHRINK IN WASH TO HALF ITS SIZE AND THAT RIP JUST THE SAME, YE KNOW WHAT BOYS ARE LIKE...

WEANS SHOULD GET WHAT THEY ARE GIVEN ,AND IF PARENTS STOP WASTING MONEY ON THESE RACKETTY DESIGNER CLOTHING PLACES WEANS WOULDNT GROW UP SO SPOILT

NO ONE REMEMBERS THE CLOTHES THEY WORE AS A WEAN WHEN THEY ARE ADULTS, THEY REMEMBER LIFE, EXCEPT IN EMBARRASSING PICS YER MAW TOOK..LOL..SO WHY DO PARENTS GIVE IN?

SO NO MORE EXPENSIVE TOGS FOR WEANS I SAY- BAN BRAND NAMES SHOPS 'I ONLY DRESS MY BRITNEY IN NEXT'

MA WEANS WEAR WARM CLEAN STUFF FAE THE CHEAPEST SHOP

I DRESS MA WEANS STYLISHLY AND SMARTLY AS THEY ARE ONLY WEANS THAT WNAT TO GO BIKES AND PLAY IN MUD AND CLIMB TREES ETC...AND PLUS IM NO INTO AW THAT , WEANS NEED LOVE AND ATTENTION AND WARM CLOTHES,NO H AND M ETC

CLOSE ST ENOCHS DOON AM AW ANGRY NOO lolol
My god the amount of procrastinating clap trap you come out with! What complete bull , do yourself a favour and speak with sense instead of letting random words spill out your mouth, it's like verbal diarrhea.
Posted by: weegielady, glasgow on 9:20pm Wed 16 Apr 08
godsake lighten up jimbob, who rattled YOUR wee reekie cage, sense of humour go on holiday and leave you behind did it?

its got nowt to do wi you anyway where you jumped in and attacked the circus, and went for my juggler...as i was debating glasgows designer already OTT shopping centres and you are in edinburgh so ,anyway, no one cares

its not earth shattering *news* no one died cos of a few shops flogging expensive designer sh1te and coffee , if folk want to trapse into st enochs or silverburn and burn money on posy keech its up to them ...

can say what i like

at least I can a) see the funny side of life and b) spell diarrhoea as spelt in UK not USA , and well mr bob, as they say it RUNS IN THE FAMILY
Posted by: weegielady, glasgow on 9:29pm Wed 16 Apr 08
and i agree the Britains got talent advert is annoying as hell, jim 1125am

i seem to have posted the most comments
here do I get a blue peter badge?

ps i thought st enochs got done up anyway?

food courts up flights of impractical stairs and having to pay someone to use the lavy was 20p as I recall last time I was there, plus a god awful multi storey that you have to pay to park in, at lets braehead and most other modern malls are free gratis parking....and spacious and airy st enochs car parks is winding and grim, with the tightest gaps possible very rubbish design

Im just trying to stick to the facts here why fit mer glass? mer windaes to clean

whos idea was it to build a greenhouse wi shops inside anyway?
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