Plans to create a pop-up Stack at a new location in Newcastle city centre this Christmas have been scrapped - in favour of ploughing ahead with the permanent site.
Danieli Group, the developers behind the drinking, dining and entertainment brand, had applied to Newcastle City Council for permission to create a temporary container village at a site in the Stephenson Quarter, behind Central Station and next to the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Following local objections to the pop-up – which was originally planned to take up the space for a year – the company has decided to withdraw its application and now fully concentrate on the creation of the new development.
Stack Newcastle will be permanently located at the Grade II listed building, Worswick Chambers at Pilgrim Street, which is set to be transformed as part of the £100m-plus scheme to regenerate the East Pilgrim Street area by the Reuben Brothers real estate entrepreneurs.
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The new venue will be split over three floors and include eight bars, seven street food units, two cocktail bars, which will also be utilised as function rooms along with a roof terrace. It will also include a central outdoor plaza area, a big screen and a stage for live performances.
Once complete the new Stack Newcastle will create 160 jobs and will bring back to the city the much-loved leisure village which has been missed since the Pilgrim Street site shut in May to make way for the new HMRC office complex.
The announcement on STACK Newcastle comes after Danieli Group revealed expansion plan, with new developments set to take shape in Lincoln, Durham, Bishop Auckland and Carlisle.
Neill Winch, CEO of Danieli Group said that while it was sad news that the pop-up would no longer take place, it meant the company can forge ahead with the Worswick Chambers plan.
“We know how much people miss not having a STACK in Newcastle so we are concentrating our efforts on creating what will become a flagship site back where STACK first began,” he said. Work is well under way on the scheme with a view to being open in winter 2023.
“It is a period of exciting and rapid growth for the company and we look forward to continuing to roll out the STACK brand at sites not just across the North East, but nationwide.”
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