Eight new jobs created as flagship Caffé Nero pod launches at Hull's St Stephen's shopping centre

Work has now been completed on a new 50-seat flagship café pod for Caffé Nero at St Stephen’s shopping centre in Hull.

Main contractors leading the scheme are Lindum Group, with project management provided by Fox Lloyd Jones and WYG all engineering services.

The café pod is expected to create eight new full-time jobs.

The bespoke modern design by architects The Harris Partnership, features a high specification material palette with Nordic brass roof, Rimex cladding and expansive full height glazing to establish a visual focal point on an important gateway site, framing key routes and views on the approach to the shopping centre, and offering customers and public a new enhanced place to dwell.

With an internal area of 1500 sq ft, the pod is the flagship of a wider £3m refurbishment and continued investment programme underway at St Stephen’s for owners British Land.

The Harris Partnership has also served as principal designer to the wider scheme, with landscaping providing an improved public realm space with pedestrian walkway leading to the café and featuring fluid planters, outdoor seating and improved lighting designed by sister company, Vector Design Concepts, delivering a welcoming beacon for the city of culture in 2017.