Freshney Place
Eastern parking Freshney Place
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| Location | Grimsby |
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| Coordinates | 53°33′58″N 0°05′11″W / 53.5662°N 0.0865°W |
| Opening date | 1968 as Riverhead Centre |
| Owner | F&C REIT (susidiary of Bank of Montreal) |
| No. of stores and services | 100 |
| Total retail floor area | 46,450 m2 |
| Website | www |
| Expanded and renamed Freshney Place in 1989 | |
Freshney Place is an award winning shopping centre in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire. Located in the centre of Grimsby it is visited annually by 14 million shoppers and employs over 2000 retail workers. The centre houses over 100 stores, with the anchor stores of Marks and Spencer, House of Fraser, Next and Primark.
Constructed between 1967 and 1971 in a joint venture between the old Grimsby Borough Council and developers Hammerson's UK Ltd., it was known as the Riverhead Centre (so named as the development was adjacent to where the two local rivers, the Freshney and the Haven, meet). It is situated to the north of Victoria Street, the main pedestrianised shopping street of the town.
The Riverhead Centre development caused some controversy as it replaced old architecture with new, as was typical in the 1960s. It demolished much of the old town centre, including the historic Bull Ring (which is now where Wilkos, the Halifax Bank and the St James Hotel are based), and streets going back many centuries, including Flottergate (located at the present-day entrance to Freshney Place between British Home Stores and the market), Brewery Street (located at the present-day entrance to Freshney Place between Barclays and the offices of the Cheltenham and Gloucester), and East St Mary's Gate (no trace remains). During this reconstruction, the ornate Victorian branch of the Midland Bank was demolished; a building of contemporary design was incorporated into the new shopping centre. In 1983 Marks and Spencer purchased the local department store Lawson and Stockdale, whose frontage ran along Victoria Street; they demolished the building and constructed a new store, linked to the centre.
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