Trinity Walk

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox shopping mall | name = Trinity Walk | image = Trinity Walk Retail Development (6) (geograph 2399160).jpg | caption = | location = [[Wakefield]], [[England]] | opening_date = 6 May 2011 | developer = [[Shepherd Building Group]] | owner = Sovereign Land / AREA Property Partners | number_of_stores = 70+ (includes 4 reserved for catering) | number_of_anchors = 4 | floor_area = 560,000 sq ft (55,000 m<sup>2</sup>) | floors = 1 | website = {{url|http://www.trinitywalk.com}} | parking = 1,000 spaces }}

'''Trinity Walk''' is a [[shopping centre]] in [[Wakefield]], [[West Yorkshire]]. England. Opened on 6 May 2011, Wakefield Council describe it as "the most important City Centre development for more than 20 years."<ref name="WC">{{cite web|url=http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/Planning/Regeneration/Wakefield/MarshWay.htm |title=Trinity Walk Development (formerly known as the Marsh Way Development) |work=wakefield.gov.uk |author=Wakefield Metropolitan District Council |date=2 September 2008 |accessdate=2 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611152415/http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/Planning/Regeneration/Wakefield/MarshWay.htm |archivedate=11 June 2008 }}</ref>

==Retail scheme==

Trinity Walk is 560,000 sq ft partially enclosed shopping centre with over 70 stores and 1,000 car parking spaces, with access from Wakefield’s inner city ring road (A61) and the main bus station. The centre contains major stores, including an 8,500 m<sup>2</sup> [[Sainsbury's]] and retailers Sports Direct,<ref>{{cite web |date=3 June 2023 |title=Sports Direct is on the way to Wakefield's Trinity Walk shopping centre with new superstore planned |url=https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/business/sports-direct-set-to-open-superstore-in-wakefields-trinity-walk-shopping-centre-4167589 |access-date=13 February 2025 |website=Wakefield Express }}</ref> Søstrene Grene,<ref>{{cite web |date=24 September 2024 |title=This is what I thought of the new store dubbed ‘Poundland of the middle classes’ |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/sostrene-grene-wakefield-i-went-to-the-poundland-of-the-middle-classes-but-be-careful-of-this-one-thing-4794214 |access-date=13 February 2025 |website=Yorkshire Post }}</ref> [[Next (clothing)|Next]], [[New Look (clothing retailer)|New Look]], and [[Pandora (jewelry)|Pandora]].

The centre recorded its record year for footfall in 2024 with around 11.35 million visits.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rahman |first=Miran |date=10 February 2025 |title=Shopping centre bucks national trend with record number of visitors {{!}} TheBusinessDesk.com |url=https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/2134611-shopping-centre-bucks-national-trend-with-record-number-of-visitors |access-date=13 February 2025 |website=Yorkshire }}</ref>

==History==

On 19 March 2009, it appeared that the development was going to fall victim to the [[2008 financial crisis]] when [[KPMG]] were called in as administrators<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/Administrators-called-in-for-200m.5090396.jp|title=Administrators called in for £200m Trinity Walk scheme|work=Wakefield Express|accessdate=18 April 2009}}</ref> as the [[Anglo Irish Bank]] withdrew its support for the project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=297&storycode=3136292&c=1|title=Anglo Irish pulls funding on Modus’ Trinity Walk in Wakefield|work=propertyweek.com|accessdate=18 April 2009}}</ref> Building work stopped and the steel structure stood half finished.{{cn|date=April 2025}}

[[Brendan Flood]]'s<ref name=Julia>{{cite web| url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/jan/11/trafford-centre-battle-ends-in-peel-group-victory |title=Trafford Centre battle ends in Peel Group victory| website=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=3 April 2025|date=11 January 2011| first=Julia| last=Kollewe}}</ref> scheme was rescued in early 2010 by a consortium who bought the development from administrators – a joint venture company comprising Sovereign Land, [[Apollo Global Management|AREA Property Partners]], and [[Shepherd Building Group]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/Trinity-Walk-back-on-track.5768967.jp|title='Trinity Walk back on track' |accessdate=6 November 2009}}</ref>

Trinity Walk opened on Friday 6 May 2011.

==Wakefield regeneration==

Trinity Walk has created hundreds of new jobs in the city.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bradford-west-yorkshire-11826977|date=24 November 2010|title=Jobs 'are on way' at Wakefield's Trinity Walk|accessdate=6 November 2009|publisher=the BBC}}</ref>

==See also== *[[The Ridings Centre]]

==References== {{commons category|Trinity Walk, Wakefield, West Yorkshire|Trinity Walk}} {{Reflist|35em}} {{coord|53.685|-1.495|display=title|region:GB_scale:10000}}

[[Category:Buildings and structures in Wakefield]] [[Category:Shopping centres in West Yorkshire]] [[Category:Shopping malls established in 2011]] [[Category:2011 establishments in England]]