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Off Topic £1.6m Bowling Alley opening in Prinny Quay...

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    ONE of the city's busiest shopping centres is hoping to strike it lucky with a new bowling alley and laser tag centre.

    The £1.6m Hull Superbowl development in Princes Quay shopping centre will open in May and is expected to create up to 30 jobs.

    It will be installed on the ground floor of the centre, near Nando's.

    The struggling centre has seen a steady decline in its footfall in recent years as shoppers turn to the internet and out-of-town retail parks.

    However, manager Claire Suggitt is confident the new joint venture with leisure firm QLP will turn its fortunes around.

    She said: "This is probably the single biggest thing that has happened in Princes Quay's 24-year history. It's everything you want all under one roof.

    "There are very few leisure facilities in the city centre and we think it is going to be a completely unique experience for customers.

    "The way people shop has changed and now people expect to combine their retail experience with a bite to eat or a trip to the cinema."

    The 24,000sq ft space will also include a bar and café with a soft play area for younger children.

    Ms Suggitt said she hopes the facility will cater for families and people of all ages.

    "We think we have come up with a facility that offers something for everyone," she said.

    "Our plan is to work with schools and colleges, as well as businesses and pensioners, to get more people into the city centre and using these facilities."

    Ms Suggitt, who is also a board director with the Hull Business Improvement District (Bid), said the centre is poised for a lot of changes in the future.

    She said: "This new facility is a part of our focus on improving what leisure facilities we offer.

    "Although we will always be a shopping centre, we are also making significant investment in giving people more options for things to do in the evening, which we hope will drastically improve the night-time economy of the city centre."

    Current plans will allow Hull Superbowl to open until at least midnight most evenings and until 1am at the weekend.

    Kate Quaintance-Blackford, of the leisure firm QLP, said: "We have more than 20 years' experience in developing bowling alleys and we are very confident our site in Hull will be a success.

    "We are one of the only companies in the UK that offers all of these facilities in one place, so we think it will be an amazing addition to the city of Hull.

    "We are a family-run company and this is our passion, so we are excited about giving Hull something it has never seen before."

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  2. BillyBobBallbag

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    nice one, i love bowling
     
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  3. Kempton

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    This feels like a good idea. The Quay needs to do something to stop the rot.
     
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    Princes Quay has gone way downhill, it hasn't been the same since Allders shut. Then Huckleberry's left, then the top deck closed and Burger King left. It just had loads of ****ty clothes shops for poor people last time I went in. And about 6 hairdressers. And a gym. And a lot of boarded up stuff. Shame.

    Hopefully this new project can breathe some life into the place, otherwise it's going to go the way of Prospect Centre.
     
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    Wasn't long ago we were talking about how dead it was in there.
     
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    The Prospect Centre has benefited from it's close proximity to St Stephens.

    When retailers are moving out of Prinny Quay, into a shopping centre built in 1975, you know it's got problems.
     
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  7. WhittlingStick

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    With the Prinny Quay opening till very late theres no real reason that the footbridge over Castle Street can't start from the centre making it much more compact than the current plans
     
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    I think most people only go in Prinny Quay nowadays for Vue cinema.

    This should get a good few more people going.
     
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    What are those problems ? It's location is excellent. Is it high rent ?
     
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    When a centre starts losing retailers to another new centre, there tends to be a snowball effect and it goes downhill fairly rapidly.

    I don't know what the rents are like in there now, but I suspect they're falling by the week.
     
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    its always been an eyesore.waste of a great dock.
     
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  12. WhittlingStick

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    looking back at old photos of our city centre - its mad to see how George St , Bond St , Jameson St , King Edward St , Whitefriargate , Prospect St all bubbled with shoppers
    Today (i usually go in town on my day off) theres just a smattering of people walking the uninteresting shop fronts of all those above streets .

    Our shopping habits have changed and this addition reflects that
     
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    I suppose once somewhere like Prinny Quay slides, it would take some bollocks for a new retail venture to start a new venture there. As iv'e said,the place seems to be a wonderful location,and i don't know why it's gone this way really.

    In fact i think it's a much better site than St Stephens. Fresh ideas like this bowling alley,might reinvent Princes Quay. I think HCC need to get their heads together.
     
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    I've been creating a city masterplan in my spare time for a while now and one of the ideas includes a new role for Princes Quay.

    The idea involves turning PQ into a leisure destination. It's perfectly placed for the old town, perfectly placed to be a post-work, pre-night out venue. It should look at The Gate in Newcastle as an example of what can be achieved as an evening economy destination.

    Bars, restaurants, cocktail bars, a bowling alley and a small casino in addition to the cinema would bring in the people in an evening.

    It should concentrate it's retail offering to purely the middle decks. It also needs a new anchor tenant - the problem is that it's current anchor tenant is probably Primark. To go in Primark people don't even need to enter Princes Quay.

    As most people are now going to Primark from St.Stephens, they're coming from a direction which means they don't go through Princes Quay, where-as when it was Alders and Princes Quay was the place to be - people would park there and walk through the centre to get to it.

    It should look to give a retail offering for specific types too - for instance, if it could knock a few units into 1 and create a space for John Lewis and Clas Ohlsen and retailers of that ilk that they know people would be prepared to go to the centre for. The type of retailers that people tend to go to retail parks for, but the retailers which aren't currently in Hull.
     
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    Prinny Quay is tall enough and the central expanse is large enough to have a "Rock City" type event built through it
     
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    When was the last time you went in Prospect Centre? It's thriving at the moment.

    The food court is back open and fully let. Bolo have moved over from Princes Quay, the gourmet burger place has opened and many other retailers have moved in, in the last couple of years. Iceland, That's Entertainment, Officers Club etc.
     
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    If only you had a decent MP, like Graham Stuart. Of course it's hard to trust a man who looks like Roy Batty and Ivan Drago's lovechild, but Beverley has benefited from his political brilliance and so could the King's Town.
     
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  19. Ambraneri

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    Great news regarding the bowling alley.....be great not having to go to the north of the city to have a game of ten-pin bowling.

    Prinny Quay is like a ghost town at times...needed something new to inject some life into it.
     
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    I'm gonna take me some skinheads.

     
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