Kingstanding Mall-Lively space to a graffiti-strewn wasteland

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Kingstanding Mall-Lively space to a graffiti-strewn wasteland

Kingstanding Shopping Centre- Lively space to graffiti-strewn deserts – Birmingham Live

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05:06, June 8, 2024

Kingstanding Shopping Centre, now earmarked for demolition(Image: Husna Anjum)

The demise of Kingstanding Shopping Center has begun as demolition bulldozers were seen destroying commercial units on the eve of the ward’s by-election. Once the bustling heart of Kingstanding Circle, the mall has deteriorated over the years as businesses slowly shuttered forever.

After the remaining Card Factory, Farmfoods and Domino’s stores finally said goodbye just before Christmas, locals said it was like “part of your life gone”. The demolition of the retail space and the adjoining Kingstanding Pub will make way for giant Lidl which hopes to invest in the area.

Let’s take a look at Kingstanding Shopping Center over the years, from trendy retail haven to derelict entity.

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Kingstanding Shopping Center since 1966

(Image: B’ham Post and Mail)

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Over 40 years later, this is what Kingstanding Shopping Center looked like in 2009

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Generations of families remember shopping here

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Returning to cllr John Cotton at the shopping center with a petition to elect a mayor for Birmingham

(Image: Mark Theisinger)

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A dramatic day he saw Luke Treen talked a young mother down from the roof after she threatened to jump. Birmingham Live covered the story in 2014

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A fire has broken out at a charity shop in Kingstanding Shopping Centre

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Years passed and the mall deteriorated as stores closed one by one. The boards were covered with graffiti and the windows were broken

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A wide view of the abandoned mall

(Image: Martin O’Callaghan / Birmingham Live)

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(left to right) Card Factory staff Colleen Costello, Kirsty Davies, Helen Arlington, Elle Owen say their last goodbyes before Christmas

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Demolition work has officially begun as the entire center was rolled out, as seen on May 29

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The space will make way for a giant Lidl store, with an unknown opening date

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According to tradition, more graffiti covers the boards until the mall is finally flattened

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