Job involves turning town鈥檚 former Galleries shopping centre into market hall, homes and leisure complex

Galliford Try has signed up for the first phase of a scheme to turn a former shopping centre in Wigan into a new mixed-use scheme.

Demolition contractor BCEGI has already carried out work to tear down the Galleries shopping centre which will be replaced by a new market hall along with a hotel, more than 450 homes and leisure facilities such as bowling alley and mini-golf.

Galliford Try鈥檚 work, which also includes a 拢4.6m basement enabling works package, is worth around 拢44m.

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How the new market hall will look

The market hall has been designed by Sheila Bird Studio with the hall set to run across 75,000 sq ft.

A cinema and a six-storey hotel, designed by JM Architects, and which will be known as Hampton by Hilton, are also included in later phases of the 拢135m scheme which is being masterminded by Wigan council and development partner Cityheart.

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