And the b.eat moves on...
STREET food and bar concept B.eat Street is finally leaving its home of the Great Northern Warehouse to make way for redevelopment of the historic site.
The Great Northern will soon be entering a period of redevelopment and the team behind B.eat Street and Friday Food Fight – who have been based at the Deansgate end of the building for three years – are throwing a huge weekend of parties to mark the end of an era.
It also marks the end of the weekend summer weekenders being held at B.eat Street, which closed to the public earlier this year and switched to a corporate hire venue through the week.
The building owners said they say B.eat Street as ‘part of the scheme’s future’ – although nothing has been agreed for B.eat Street to return to the space. A group of design and architect firms have been working on proposals for the Great Northern’s dramatic decade-long redevelopment for some time, with a view to ‘reinventing’ it both inside and out.
The estimated cost is around £300m and includes a new shoplined pedestrianised street along the back of the Deansgate facade, a skyscraper and new apartments inside the warehouse itself.
This weekend however, Dirty Food Revolution will provide the eats with Bad Fun DJs (Friday) and Jess Kemp (Saturday) and Lavender band (Sunday) bringing the beats.
Zak Veasey, from Trilogy Real Estate, developers of Great Northern, said: “B.eat Street and its predecessor Friday Food Fight have made a great contribution to the recent resurgence of the Great Northern.
“The team’s presence on site has always delivered an exciting, innovative and independent product that helped introduce Great Northern to a new audience.
They will be sadly missed as they move out of their Deansgate Mews home to make way for the start of the first phase of our exciting redevelopment. However, we see them as part of the scheme’s future as we pull together the best food, drink and retail offerings of the North and hope to work with the team again and welcome them back once we are complete.”