A unique shopping experience in a Lake District town has revealed the next stage of development.
Spinning Jennies, in the former Beales department store in Kendal, is set to open next year.
It is an ambitious project to redevelop the Finkle Street property into a multi-use food and retail hub with an emphasis on Cumbrian produce and makers.
The first floor will be given over to a food market, called Loom, featuring six kitchens, an in-house bar and communal seating.
It will open early next year and Spinning Jennies said it would reveal what the kitchens would be offering in the coming weeks.
Paul Jones, hospitality director of Spinning Jennies, said: “We have been working hard, midst a complex refurbishment, to be able to bring this type of multi-option eating out facility to Kendal.
“The use of local produce and variety of street style food with global influence will undoubtedly add to the neighbourly fun and vibrancy re-emerging down Finkle Street. Loom on the top floor is all part of the one-stop destination for eating, meeting, shopping for the surrounding communities and the area’s many visitors.”
Geri Ward, who is driving the Spinning Jennies vision, said: “Making this happen isn’t easy and we still have work to do to bring this top floor alive from where ladies fashion used to be.
“Once open, it will be a dream come true and, that it is going to be in the same building as a celebration of the Lake District farmers and makers produce on our Cumbrian retail floor, plus other activities and offerings still to be announced, in Kendal’s town centre, is part of life worth working for!”
