Council bosses say they are “100 per cent committed” to completing the regeneration of a vital Newcastle development site.
It was announced last week that popular shipping container village Stack could be making a return to the city, with plans to create a temporary home for the leisure venue at the Stephenson Quarter. It is hoped that the pop-up Stack will be in place before Christmas, taking over a plot of land next to the Crowne Plaza Hotel behind Central Station for a year.
While Stack’s potential return has been generally welcomed, the temporary venture has prompted new questions about the long-term future of one of the city’s most important redevelopment schemes. A transformation of the Stephenson Quarter, once home to Robert Stephenson’s steam locomotive works, has so far produced the hotel, the Boiler Shop, and the Rocket office block, while the Pattern Shop is in the process of being brought back from dereliction as new offices.
