The Forge Shopping Centre

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The Forge Shopping Centre
Facts and statistics
Location	Parkhead, City of Glasgow, Scotland
Opening date	1988
No. of anchor tenants	3
Total retail floor area	2

The Forge Shopping Centre (also known as Parkhead Forge) exists in the east end of Glasgow in Parkhead. The shopping centre bore the name from the former steel works site.^[1]

Contents 1 History 1.1 Construction of the Forge 1.2 The Forge Extension 2 Current Stores 3 The Forge Retail Park 4 References

[edit] History

[edit] Construction of the Forge

The Gear (Glasgow East Area Renewal) was founded in 1976, then Europe's largest urban scheme of this kind, to provide "core areas with development potential" in the east end of Glasgow. A new shopping centre was part of the plan, ideally to replace the then recently closed Parkhead Forge plant of the Beardmore's steel works. ^[2] The shopping centre was going to contain a supermarket, a new multiplex cinema and at least 40 units. Work on the shopping centre occurred from 1986 to 1988.

[edit] The Forge Extension

A second phase of the Forge Shopping Centre incorpated a new indoor market and a retail park site in the mid-1990s.

Recently, the centre was extended to allow space for a new department store.

[edit] Current Stores

The Forge has a range of shops including three anchor stores: Dunnes Stores, Primark and ASDA and a multiplex cinema on site. A McDonald's drive-thru is erected in the vincity of the car park.^[3]

[edit] The Forge Retail Park

The Forge Retail Park is situated opposite the shopping centre, near the Parkhead bypass.^[4] Main stores include: Toys R Us ^[5], Woolworths, Next Clearance, Homebase, Pets at Home, KFC drive-thru and Pizza Hut. ^[6]

[edit] References