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Dundee's city centre retains several streets of a similar name: Nethergate, Cowgate, Seagate, Murraygate, Wellgate and
Marketgait. The Overgate's old and dilapidated properties were deemed 'slums' in the early 20th century. James Thomson proposed their clearance in his city plan of 1910. A similar proposal came in the form of the Adams Plan of 1937; this did not progress due to the outbreak of the
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Burke, Hugh Martin & Partners in 1963 and hailed as the first comprehensive town-centre development of its type in
Scotland. It included public sculpture panels in concrete and painted steel (depicting women in traditional market scenes) by Ian Eadie. It also had a rooftop car park accessed from Lindsay Street. Abandoned by the more fashionable chainstores when the
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The 1960s
Overgate Centre was a mixed-use development comprising hotel and offices to the west (fronting West Marketgait), a pedestrian precinct (incorporating an upper tier of shops) facing the City Churches;and anchor stores / covered mall to the east (to Reform Street). It was designed by Ian
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meaning to walk. The street was referred to as 'Overgate' because it was the higher of the two roads running alongside the city churches, the other being called the
Nethergate (i.e. lower road). Gate and gait can often be found in historic and modern street names mostly meaning the same thing and
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The centre reopened as a fully enclosed shopping mall in 2000 and follows the same basic layout as the 1960s structure. Two levels of retail units are enclosed by a long curved glass elevation looking out to the historic City
Churches where a pedestrian precinct remains. It houses over 60 shops,
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Overgate structure, only the parts surrounding the Reform Street entrance survive. However, with the exception of the City House office block (which retains its original facade), this older section was refurbished and reclad to seamlessly match the newly built main body.
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The 1998 rebuild effectively shifted the centre of gravity back to the
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moved tenants out of flats next to the centre to facilitate the project. Demolition commended in May/June 2009. The £50 million expansion was intended to double the size of the centre and to include 50 new shops and a
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661:"City House"
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1095:The Centre
645:24 October
621:References
427:Goldsmiths
418:Footasylum
346:Auto Valet
302:food court
229:Caird Hall
217:City House
65:56°27′32″N
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1109:Elsewhere
906:Edinburgh
563:Superdrug
553:Starbucks
450:JD Sports
406:Five Guys
314:Lendlease
308:Ownership
207:Debenhams
68:2°58′27″W
1121:Braehead
936:(closed)
854:(closed)
844:Aberdeen
836:Scotland
752:BBC News
609:Vodafone
589:Trespass
481:New Look
377:Clintons
372:Claire's
359:Bodycare
43:Location
22:Overgate
983:Glasgow
705:14 July
677:14 July
584:Toytown
523:Rituals
519:Regatta
509:Primark
504:Pandora
467:Menkind
437:H&M
415:Fonetek
318:Landsec
211:Primark
148:Parking
119:No. of
883:Dundee
558:Subway
539:Select
499:Office
458:Lovisa
432:Greggs
332:Stores
199:Dundee
47:Dundee
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364:Boots
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101:Owner
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514:Quiz
486:Next
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