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Overgate Location Dundee, Scotland Coordinates 56°27′32″N 2°58′27″W / 56.4590°N 2.9741°WCoordinates: 56°27′32″N 2°58′27″W / 56.4590°N 2.9741°W Opening date 2000 (in its present form) Owner Land securities Group No. of stores and services 62 No. of anchor tenants 2 Parking 3 car parks (2 multi-story) No. of floors 2 
Overgate as viewed from the City Square entrance
The Overgate Centre is a shopping centre in Dundee, Scotland. It originally opened in the 1960's but in 1998 work began on demolishing part of the centre before undergoing a complete refurbishment. The centre was formally reopened in 2000. Throughout the building work a number of stores remained open such as C&A and Argos. It is the only single-sided shopping mall in Europe and has a curved glass window spanning the south side of the building looking onto Dundee's City Churches.
The mall houses over 60 shops, cafes and restaurants as well as three car parks, two of them multi-story. Its two flagship stores are Debenhams, which is the only store that spans three floors, at the west end entrance and Primark at the main entrance on the east side of the mall which opened October 2006 having relocated from a smaller store within the centre.
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The £50m expansion
The Overgate is planned to expand in near future, the overgate was given permission in 2006 to expand, including to rebuild over other buildings which include Lidl and many homes, in 2008 Dundee City Council made tenants of flats next to the overgate move out for the expansion, alltough all of the residents were relocated. The buildings/flats next to the overgate have started being demolished as of May/June 2009.
The plan is a £50,000,000 expansion to make the mall more than twice its size, including to open more than 50 new shops, hundreds of new jobs and a food court. However nothing has happened yet; it was revealed on the 24th of September 2009 that the plans had been held back, due to the current reccession. Dundee City Council and Lend Lease said they are still behind the plan, however they also said the Overgate was their primary building to help at the moment. Work is to possibly start mid 2013 or early 2014.
On December 17 2010, Land Securities took over the running and ownership of the Overgate Centre from Lend Lease for £141 million.
Historical Location
The centre is located over what was the street named 'Overgate' which ran from the corner of Reform Street to Lindsay Street which once connected North Lindsay Sreet to the Nethergate passing the West side of St Mary's Parish Church. The Overgate was also once intersected by Tally Street which once acted as important connection from Couttie's Wynd to Burial Wynd (now Barrack Street). The gate in Overgate comes from the Old Norse word gata meaning road or street and has the same origins as the word gait meaning to walk. Gate and gait can often be found in historic and modern street names mostly meaning the same thing.
Store Directory
Stores within the Overgate include:
- Argos
- art@home
- Bank
- Barratts
- Bodycare
- Burger King
- Boots
- Calendar Club
- Carphone Warehouse
- Clinton Cards
- Debenhams
- d2
- Esprit
- Ernest Jones
- First Sport
- Free Spirit
- French Connection
- Fuel Juice Bars
- Gap
- Goldsmiths
- Greggs
- H&M
- La Senza
- Logo
- Lush
- Mango
- Millies Cookies
- Muffin Break
- New Look
- Next
- O2
- Oasis
- Office
- Optical Express
- Orange
- Ortak
- Passion For Perfume
- Past Times
- Phones 4U
- Primark
- Projekt Clothing
- River Island
- Sports World
- Spud U Like
- Starbucks
- Subway
- Superdrug
- Superdry
- T-Mobile
- Thomson
- Three
- Topman
- Topshop
- USC
- Virgin Media
- Warehouse
- Warren James
- WH Smith
External links
Categories:- Shopping centres in Dundee
- Shopping centres in Scotland
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