Candleriggs is a street in the city

City

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 of Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, Scotland

Scotland

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. It is located in the Merchant City

Merchant City

The Merchant City is a district in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland.- History :The medieval Glasgow Cross was located on the road between High Street and Saltgait. Its modern replacement was built to the south-east of the original location to aid traffic. The town's tron was placed on the...

 area of the city centre.

Candleriggs is best known for it being the home of City Halls, a musical venue operated by Glasgow City Council. The old Candleriggs Fruit Market building at the corner of Candleriggs and Bell Street housed a weekend market for many years. With the opening of a purpose built facility at The Forge in nearby Parkhead

Parkhead

Parkhead is a district in the East End of Glasgow. Its name comes from a small weaving hamlet at the meeting place of the Great Eastern Road and Westmuir Street. Duke Street and Springfield Road also meet there, to form a turreted Edwardian five-way junction at Parkhead Cross...

, it was closed in 1998 and redeveloped as leisure complex known as "Merchant Square", with a wide variety of pubs and restaurants.

Towards the southern end of Candleriggs was the Goldbergs

Goldbergs

A. Goldberg and Sons plc was a Scottish retail organisation which, prior to its demise in 1990, had grown from a single Glasgow store in 1908 to a chain of over 100 outlets.At the Edinburgh store there was a cafe on the top floor with a roof garden....

 department store, which closed in 1991. It was then taken over by Vera Weisfeld (of What Every Woman Wants fame) and reopened in 1994 as "Weisfelds" - a budget clothing store, but closed again in 1999. Granny Black's was a well known pub and fruit shop on Candleriggs and were housed in a tenement

Tenement

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 building next to the Goldbergs building, but this mysteriously collapsed one night without warning one evening in February of 2002.

The site has since fallen into dereliction and the land has been acquired by the London

London

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 retail giant Selfridges

Selfridges

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, although plans to build a store there have been shelved until further notice.