Bradford Council has chosen the English Cities Fund as a private developer partner for its City Village project.
The £24m scheme is expected to deliver up to 1,000 homes over the next 10 years on the site of the existing 1970s Oastler Shopping Centre, situated on an 8.7 acre-site.
The retail and leisure offering will be moved to a new building to be known as Darley Street Market. This is set to provide opportunities for small food businesses, alongside non-food market operators.
Work on the new development is expected to begin as soon as 2024.
ECF is a joint venture between Homes England, Legal & General and Muse Developments.
James Pitt, regional director at Muse, said: “We don’t work on a cookie cutter process for development. It has to respond to the community. Here in Bradford we’ve got complex challenges in terms of the multicultural background and we have to think whether we could do something different to respond to that.
“I don’t know the answers to that yet but it’s those sort of things that I think we’ll be working through with my colleagues here and the wider team and hopefully we can come back and talk a bit more about it in the near future.”
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