Crystal Peaks

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Crystal Peaks

Location	Sheffield, UK
Opening date	March 1988
Owner	Britel Fund Trustees Ltd
Total retail floor area	400,000ft² (37,100m²) (retail park excluded)
No. of floors	2

Crystal Peaks is a shopping centre in Sheffield, England. It was the city's largest shopping centre until Meadowhall was built in 1987 and opened in March 1988. Crystal Peaks possessed the largest cinema complex in the city, UCI, until the construction of a Virgin Cinemas at Valley Centertainment and has since been demolished. A Sainsbury's supermarket, moved from Meadowhall's Sava Centre, recently opened and houses the largest TU clothing range in the UK^{[citation needed]}. An extension has recently been built to the rear of the main shopping centre.

1 Shopping centre
2 Transport connections
3 Awards
4 External links

[edit] Shopping centre

The centre is small compared to the Meadowhall shopping centre but it features quite a few high street stores and popular fast food restaurants. Also across the road there is a large retail park. Crystal Peaks is unusual in the UK in that part of the centre is given over to an indoor market.

In addition to the seventy-five expected high street retailers there is also a 100-stall indoor market and the nearby Drake House retail park.

The shopping centre doesn't have as many larger-brand stores as Meadowhall, but it features big names such as JJB, Next, Burton and Topshop. The centre also has 2 supermarkets with Iceland and the new large Sainsbury's.

[edit] Transport connections

The shopping centre, situated in the Southeast of Sheffield, is served by the M1 and Mosborough Parkway. Around 1000 car spaces are available in 4 colour coded car parks. A bus station and two Sheffield Supertram stops facilitate access to the centre, linking it to Sheffield, and surrounding townships of Beighton, Hackenthorpe, Owlthorpe, Sothall, Waterthorpe, And Westfield. Which the tram and center were built to serve.