Candleriggs

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Candleriggs is a street in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located in the Merchant City area of the city centre.

Candleriggs is best known for it being the home of City Halls, a musical venue operated by Glasgow City Council. The old Candleriggs Fruit Market building at the corner of Candleriggs and Bell Street housed a weekend market for many years. With the opening of a purpose built facility at The Forge in nearby Parkhead, it was closed in 1998 and redeveloped as leisure complex known as "Merchant Square", with a wide variety of pubs and restaurants.

Towards the southern end of Candleriggs was the Goldbergs department store, which closed in 1991. It was then taken over by Vera Weisfeld (of What Every Woman Wants fame) and reopened in 1994 as "Weisfelds" - a budget clothing store, but closed again in 1999. Granny Black's was a well known pub and fruit shop on Candleriggs and were housed in a tenement building next to the Goldbergs building, but this mysteriously collapsed one night without warning one evening in February of 2002.

The site has since fallen into dereliction and the land has been acquired by the London retail giant Selfridges, although plans to build a store there have been shelved until further notice.