Go a bit further to Bury mate they have a cracking market!

What does it say in League Weekly about stadium? Anything we didn’t know?

It more or less confirmed that Nosey Parker had been reading this forum.

No doubt about that City's like ours and lots of others have and are changing, they've had to, to move with the times or they simply get left behind. Like certain parts of ours have done to some extent.
In Wakefield, there is actually some cracking restaurants now, where at one time there was nothing really. So you're right, nowadays it's about getting the right mix of restaurants/pubs/coffee shops etc and retail outlets, that want to make people get off the internet and enjoy their City.

wonder how mc meeting with manny went today

Wakefield's shopping centre is 10miles up the road, Trinity, in Leeds!!!!

Hadn't heard he had a meeting.

I was in Exeter in Devon last Friday, a city of similar size to Wakefield. The centre was absolutely teeming. All the big name shops and stores plus hundreds of small independant outlets. Admittedly the nearest large town (Plymouth) is about 35 miles away, but to see such a thriving area makes me all the more despondent when I see what legacy we are left with in Wakefield.

I actually think that the Market site would be good for a cinema, with all the restaurants and bars around there but it will do to Cineworld what Trinity Walk has done to the Ridings. We will get a new cinema and the old one will end up being another white elephant.

That's my thought as well. We've made this sort of mistake before so why do it again. Like you say if there wasn't one it would be a good place. Then again knocking the old one down and building a new one there would be as well, seeing as it's the biggest eyesore in the City and would do a lot for that area of town. It may encourage more upmarket shops down Kirkgate as well & revitalise the area.

I don't know if it's being printed anywhere but who's funding it, because I'd be surprised if the private sector would risk the money with the Multiplex about 1/2 a mile away. That's in a free parking retail area, with every fast food place goingnext to it and a couple of 'restaurants' and it's not as if you can't fall out and be in a pub in 2 minutes.

You do look a little like victor

Forget the cinema. What about a bowling alley on the site of the old market utilising the existing cinema, more or less. Cineworld could carry on as normal and a much missed facility in Wakefield could be restored. Bowling is big business in Barnsley. No reason why it shouldn't be here.

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