RESTAURANTS
OF NEW BARS AND
a much-needed ‘grown up’ but ‘downto-earth’ wine bar.
It won’t be the last such development either with Huddersfield businessman Mark Robertson well on with his plans to redevelop the former solicitors, Armitage and Sykes, on Macaulay Street after spending a six figure sum.
In the spring he hopes it will open as a classy wine bar and upmarket coffee shop, next door to his already thriving Plumbers Arms pub.
And if that were not enough he will also open a huge extension of the Plumbers Arms at its back complete with a stylish avant garde glass elevator.
Mark, who also owns The Waterloo Tavern on Wakefield Road and The Waggon and Horses, at Outlane, said he had no hesitation in backing his home town saying he was “delighted at the public’s support”.
But it’s not just homegrown investors who are busy funding major projects in the town centre.
Ian Snowball, originally from the north east, recently bought the Roxy Ball Room on Zetland Street, opposite the University of Huddersfield.
He has revitalised it, renamed it The Showtime, and is hoping to eventually dust off his plans for a further club and bar next door if all goes well.
Ian, 58, said: “I love it here and if I can get Kirklees Council onside with my ideas that will be great.”