The Gate, Newcastle

The Gate
The Gate
	The exterior of the Gate.
General information
Status	Completed, in use
Type	Leisure, Entertainment
Town or city	Newcastle upon Tyne
Country	United Kingdom
Coordinates	54°58′23″N 1°37′05″W / 54.973°N 1.618°W
Current tenants	See venues
Opened	28 November 2002
Cost	£80 million
Client	Land Securities
Owner	Crown Estate
Technical details
Floor area	19,235 m2 (207,040 sq ft)
Website
	www.thegatenewcastle.co.uk

The Gate is a retail and leisure complex in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.

History

The venue takes its name from the street on which it stands, Newgate Street. It is part of the historic Grainger Town area of Newcastle. The noted concert hall the Mayfair Ballroom was among the buildings demolished to make way for The Gate. It was opened on 28 November 2002.^[1]

The Gate has 19 venues spread across three floors, including a 16-screen Cineworld cinema and Aspers Casino. The Gate is also next to Newcastle's Chinatown; there is an entrance on Stowell Street. The Gate building was built to replace the 35-year-old, 7-storey Newgate House, which was home to the prolific music venue; The Mayfair club. Mood Bar opened on 28 November 2002, the same time as The Gate.

The 19,235 m², £80 million venue was built by Land Securities and the 12-metre-tall (39 ft) sculpture outside, "Ellipsis Eclipses", was designed by Danny Lane.^[2] The 24-metre-high (79 ft)^[3] glass façade was designed by Space Decks Limited.^[4] The Odeon Cinema (later Empire, now Cineworld) was built to replace the 71-year-old Odeon/Paramount cinema on Pilgrim Street, which after the Gate's opening remained disused until its demolition in 2017.^[5] The Gate provided 400 new jobs when opened and a further 600 during construction.

In 2004 BDP Lighting won a Lighting Design award for their work at The Gate.^[6]

The Gate won the Property Week award for Best Commercial UK Mixed-Use Leisure Scheme, and the British Toilet Association awarded The Gate a Loo of the Year Award and awarded it five stars.^[7]

In 2010 Jamie Ritblat's property company, Delancey, bought The Gate in a £900 million package of properties from PropInvest Group, in partnership with the Royal Bank of Scotland. In 2012 The Gate was sold to the Crown Estate for £60 million.^[8]