The Overgate Centre is a shopping centre

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

 in Dundee

Dundee

Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...

, Scotland

Scotland

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. 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

C&A

C&A is an international chain of fashion retail clothing stores, with its European head offices in Vilvoorde , Belgium and Düsseldorf, Germany...

 and Argos

Argos

Argos is a city and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit. It is 11 kilometres from Nafplion, which was its historic harbour...

. 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

Debenhams

Debenhams plc is a British retailer operating under a department store format in the UK, Ireland and Denmark, and franchise stores in other countries. The Company was founded in the eighteenth century as a single store in London and has now grown to around 160 shops...

, which is the only store that spans three floors, at the west end entrance and Primark

Primark

Primark is a clothing retailer, operating over 223 stores in Ireland , the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Belgium...

 at the main entrance on the east side of the mall which opened October 2006 having relocated from a smaller store within the centre.

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

Lidl

Lidl is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany that operates over 7,200 stores across Europe. The company's full name is Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG...

 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

Food court

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. 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

Dundee Parish Church (St Mary's)

Dundee Parish Church is located in the east section of Dundee's "City Churches", the other being occupied by the Steeple Church. Both are congregations in the Church of Scotland, although with differing styles of worship....

. 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

Gait

Gait is the pattern of movement of the limbs of animals, including humans, during locomotion over a solid substrate. Most animals use a variety of gaits, selecting gait based on speed, terrain, the need to maneuver, and energetic efficiency...

 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
  Argos (retailer)
  Argos is the largest general-goods retailer in the United Kingdom and Ireland with over 800 stores. It is unique amongst major retailers in the UK in that it is a catalogue merchant...
  
  
• art@home
• Bank
• Barratts
• Bodycare
• Burger King
  Burger King
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• Boots
• Calendar Club
• Carphone Warehouse
  The Carphone Warehouse
  Carphone Warehouse Group PLC , known as The Carphone Warehouse, is Europe's largest independent mobile phone retailer, with over 1,700 stores across Europe. It is based in the United Kingdom and is a 50% subsidiary of Best Buy...
  
  
• Clinton Cards
  Clinton Cards
  Clinton Cards is a chain of stores in the UK founded in 1968 by Don Lewin. Mostly selling greeting cards, as the name suggests, the chain claims to be "the largest specialist retailer of greetings cards, plush merchandise and related products in the UK with over 700 shops." They used to be...
  
  
• Debenhams
  Debenhams
  Debenhams plc is a British retailer operating under a department store format in the UK, Ireland and Denmark, and franchise stores in other countries. The Company was founded in the eighteenth century as a single store in London and has now grown to around 160 shops...
  
  
• d2
  D2 (clothing)
  D2 is a jeans and casualwear retailing company operating in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland. The company was formed in spring 1999 from a combination of the Fosters Menswear, part of the Jeanster casualwear chain, and Jeans for Sale by Sir Tom Hunter and his investment company West Coast...
  
  
• Esprit
  Esprit Holdings
  Esprit Holdings Limited is a publicly owned manufacturer of apparel, footwear, accessories, jewellery and housewares under the Esprit label. The company is headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and Ratingen , Germany. In the 2007–2008 business year, Esprit Holdings Limited generated a worldwide...
  
  
• Ernest Jones
  Signet Group
  Signet Jewelers Limited is the world's largest specialty retail jeweller. The Bermuda-domiciled, British headquartered company is listed on both the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. The group focuses on the middle mass jewelry segment and has number one positions in both the...
  
  
• First Sport
• Free Spirit
• French Connection
  French Connection (clothing)
  French Connection is a retailer and wholesaler of fashion clothing and accessories. Founded in 1972 by Stephen Marks it is based in London, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and operates globally....
  
  
• Fuel Juice Bars
• Gap
• Goldsmiths
• Greggs
  Greggs
  Greggs plc is the largest specialist retail bakery chain in the United Kingdom. It was established in the 1930s as a single shop but has approximately 1,500 outlets....
  
  
• H&M
  H&M
  H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a Swedish retail-clothing company, known for its fast-fashion clothing offerings for women, men, teenagers and children....
  
  
• La Senza
  La Senza
  La Senza Corporation is a Canadian fashion retailer based in Dorval, Quebec, Canada, which sells lingerie and intimate apparel. The La Senza brand is currently owned by Limited Brands.- History :...
  
  
• Logo
• Lush
• Mango
  Mango (clothing)
  Mango, stylized MANGO, is a clothing design and manufacturing company. Isak Andic is the president.Its goal is "to be present in every city" in the world...
  
  
• Millies Cookies
• Muffin Break
• New Look
  New Look (store)
  New Look is a British global fashion retailer with a chain of high street shops in Britain, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Malta, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.-History:...
  
  
• Next
• O2
• Oasis
• Office
• Optical Express
• Orange
  Orange UK
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• Ortak
• Passion For Perfume
• Past Times
• Phones 4U
  Phones 4U
  Phones 4u is a large independent mobile phone retailer in the UK. It is part of the 4u Group based in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Since opening in 1996, it has expanded to over 550 stores throughout the United Kingdom. - Company Background :...
  
  
• Primark
  Primark
  Primark is a clothing retailer, operating over 223 stores in Ireland , the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Belgium...
  
  
• Projekt Clothing
• River Island
  River Island
  River Island is one of Britain's best known high street fashion brands and can be found in most cities across the UK. The brand also has stores in Singapore, Turkey, Poland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the Middle East.-History:...
  
  
• Sports World
  Sports World
  SportsDirect.com is a British sporting goods retailer, the primary retail asset of Sports Direct International plc. The company was formerly known as Sports World and before that Sports Soccer, but since 2007 branches of the chain have been rebranded as SportsDirect.com, the domain name of its...
  
  
• Spud U Like
• Starbucks
  Starbucks
  Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
  
  
• Subway
  Subway (restaurant)
  Subway is an American restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches and salads. It is owned and operated by Doctor's Associates, Inc. . Subway is one of the fastest growing franchises in the world with 35,519 restaurants in 98 countries and territories as of October 25th, 2011...
  
  
• Superdrug
  Superdrug
  Superdrug Stores PLC is Britain's second-largest beauty and health retailer behind Boots. Superdrug - part of the AS Watson Group which in turn is part of the Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa - is a UK based company with over 890 stores, which since 2006, includes the Republic of Ireland...
  
  
• Superdry
  Superdry
  SuperGroup plc is a British retail brand. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The Group is made up of three main brands: Superdry, 77Breed and SurfCo California. Superdry products fuse vintage Americana fabrics with pseudo-Japanese text and have...
  
  
• T-Mobile
  T-Mobile
  T-Mobile International AG is a German-based holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM and UMTS-based cellular networks in Europe, the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...
  
  
• Thomson
  Thomson Holidays
  Thomson Holidays is a UK based travel operator and part of TUI Travel PLC. The company was founded as part of the Thomson Travel Group in 1965 following the acquisition of three package holiday travel agencies and the airline Britannia Airways by Roy Thomson...
  
  
• Three
• Topman
  Topman
  TOPMAN is the stand-alone fashion business counterpart of Topshop that caters exclusively to men’s clothing. A part of the Arcadia Group, which also owns Burton, Miss Selfridge, Wallis, Evans, British Home Stores and Dorothy Perkins, Topman has a chain of high-street men's clothing stores located...
  
  
• Topshop
  Topshop
  Topshop is a British clothes retailer with shops in over 20 countries and online operations in a number of its markets. Its sales come primarily from women's clothing and fashion accessories...
  
  
• USC
  USC (store)
  USC is a retail store that sells branded clothing across the United Kingdom. The first USC store opened in 1989 in Edinburgh and specialised in sports clothing. USC used to stand for United Sports Corporation and was founded by Angus Morrison and David Douglas...
  
  
• Virgin Media
  Virgin Media
  Virgin Media Inc. is a company which provides fixed and mobile telephone, television and broadband internet services to businesses and consumers in the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Warehouse
• Warren James
• WH Smith