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The Development
Designed by architects Chapman Taylor, SouthGate will remain sensitive to Bath's World Heritage status and blend with the city's beautiful Georgian architecture. SouthGate builds on the city's already strong retail offer to create a new quarter specifically designed to meet the demands of the modern shopper - and the modern retailer, with simple, regular shaped interior spaces which can be easily configured to meet a wide variety of needs. Built in conjunction with a state of the art tranpsort interchange, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, and heralded as the largest mixed use development to be built in the city centre in living memory (417,000 sq ft), SouthGate has much to live up to.
SouthGate is not an enclosed shopping centre of the past but a tribute to modern design and urban planning. Its retail, residential and leisure areas will be linked by classic Georgian-style open streets, with public spaces, including a large central square, designed to hold community, arts and entertainment events. This open streetscape will connect the 56 prime retail units anchored by a 125,000 sq ft Debenhams department store, 93 apartments and 8 leisure areas. There will also be 860 new underground parking spaces created.