Overview
- Kirkgate Shopping Centre, which closed on Thursday, June 18, 2026, has been vacated and centre staff posted a final thank-you message as units are cleared ahead of demolition.
- Bradford Council and delivery partner ECF intend to begin demolition before the end of 2026 with work expected to take about 18 months.
- The City Village proposal would replace the site and the adjacent Oastler Market with new homes, commercial units and public parks, with coverage citing plans for hundreds of flats and wider descriptions of up to around 1,000 homes.
- Most retailers left in recent months and several businesses have already relocated, and local reaction mixes nostalgia and sadness from former traders with support for new housing from other residents.
- The closure caps a long decline that accelerated after Broadway Shopping Centre opened in 2015, and heritage groups said they regretted losing the 1970s brutalist building while accepting redevelopment as the best option.