page_title: Meadowhall (shopping centre)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Meadowhall (shopping centre) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Saturday afternoon in Meadowhall shopping mall Most of the shops are now open after the summer flood clean up.
context_page_description: Meadowhall is an indoor shopping centre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It lies 3 miles north-east of Sheffield city centre and 2 miles from Rotherham town centre. It is the largest shopping centre in Yorkshire and currently the eleventh-largest in the United Kingdom; plans for an extension are currently under consideration, for completion in the 2020s, which would make Meadowhall the fourth-largest shopping centre in the United Kingdom.
  Architecturally, the original construction of Meadowhall in the early 1990s was inspired by the Place d'Orléans shopping centre in Ottawa, Canada. The Meadowhall Retail Park is a separate development, owned by British Land, lying almost 1 mile to the south of Meadowhall shopping centre in the Carbrook area of the city.
context_section_description: The shopping centre was built by Bovis on the site previously occupied by Hadfields' East Hecla steelworks, and before that by the 19th-century Meadow Hall Iron Works, owned by John Crowley and Co.
  The centre was opened on 4 September 1990. With a floor area of 139,355 m² (1,500,005 sq ft), it is the eleventh-largest (second-largest when first opened) shopping centre in the UK. It is similar in concept to the Merry Hill Shopping Centre at Brierley Hill in the West Midlands, which was completed just before Meadowhall.
  With over 280 stores, Meadowhall has been widely blamed for the closure of shops in Sheffield City Centre and in Rotherham. Meadowhall is owned by British Land, a property developer. The centre attracted 19.8 million visitors in its first year of opening, and now attracts about 30 million visitors a year.
  Scenes from the music video of the Sheffield-based duo Moloko's first single "Fun For Me" were shot in the Oasis area of the shopping centre.
  One of Meadowhall's largest stores of the past, Sainsbury's (formerly located on Market Street), closed in July 2005 and was replaced by new Next and Primark stores in the summer of 2007. The large Sainsbury's store relocated to Crystal Peaks. There was a Namco Station arcade which closed in September 2007 after more than 15 years at the shopping centre. December 2005 saw Meadowhall become home to the fifth Apple Store in the UK, and in late 2007 it gained the third Puma Store in the UK, after London and Glasgow. The centre was also home to the only McCafé in Yorkshire, which has been replaced with a franchise called "Love Coffee". The centre's Burger King (formerly located on Market Street) was replaced by a small franchise called "Burger Knight" when it re-opened after the 2007 floods. The franchise later closed in May 2008. 
  In October 2012, Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) announced that the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global had bought 50 percent of the UK shopping centre Meadowhall for £348 million, or approximately 3.2 billion Norwegian kroner.
  In 2014, the mall "Park Lane" was refurbished in the style of a "boutique arcade". The "Park Lane" area is now seen as the most upmarket area of Meadowhall, with stores such as Pretty Green, House of Fraser, Hugo Boss, White Stuff, Yo! Sushi and Debenhams.
caption: Meadowhall's High Street in September 2007
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