Silver Arcade

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Interior of the Silver Arcade

Silver Arcade is a Grade II listed building in the centre of Leicester, England. A former shopping arcade, Silver Arcade was built by Amos Hall in 1889. The top floor was closed off in 2000, leaving the units on the ground floor occupied by a number of independent retailers. In 2008, the centre was the focus of a campaign by the Leicester Civic Society to reopen it. [1]

In 2010, plans were announced to reopen the top floors. [2] Later plans in 2019 were announced to convert two floors of the building into office space. [3]

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References

  1. Campaign: Reopen Silver Arcade - Leicester Civic Society website
  2. Silver Arcade Plan - This is Leicestershire
  3. Watson, Hayley (4 June 2019). "What you said about plans to turn Silver Arcade into offices". leicestermercury. Retrieved 31 July 2020.

Coordinates: 52°38′08″N1°08′03″W / 52.6355°N 1.1341°W / 52.6355; -1.1341