Swan Shopping Centre
Shopping mall in Yardley, Birmingham
52°27′44.99″N 1°48′49.57″W / 52.4624972°N 1.8137694°W / 52.4624972; -1.8137694The Swan Shopping Centre is an 80,000 square feet (7,400 m2) shopping centre in Yardley, Birmingham, which opened in Spring 2012.[1][2]
With its landmark high rise building, it stands on the A45 Coventry Road at its intersection with the A4040 Outer Ring Road (also the Birmingham Outer Circle Number 11 bus route), known as Swan Island.
In-store Events
Since its opening there has been one event inside the Swan Shopping Centre. For the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II Weekend, Free Radio hosted a "street party" inside the shopping centre with artificial grass. There were many other things happening too with music, having your picture taken as the Queen and more.[3]
Current Stores
There are 21 retail units in the shopping centre.[4]
References
- ^ "The Swan Centre". Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ Emma McKinney (11 June 2011), "Road at new Tesco in Yardley is part-opened", Birmingham Mail, retrieved 16 August 2011
- ^ "Free Radio's coverage of the event". Retrieved 16 August 2011.
- ^ "Tesco Swan Centre - Yardley". Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
External links
- Swan Shopping Centre website
- Planning application for redevelopment (pdf) [dead link]
- 1890 Ordnance Survey map of the Swan area – Swan Inn can clearly be seen on the map.
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