As reported recently in the Swindon Advertiser, the town's Mecca Bingo hall has been shut down and sold to Swindon Borough Council. The Mecca building has been on the market for over a year and has now been brought into The New Swindon Company's regeneration plans. The intention is to improve both Clarence Street and Princes Street and provide a better pedestrian linkage between the island site and Library/Town Hall Square.
This is a strategic purchase that will help improve both the vehicular and pedestrian connections and reconnect Old Town and New Town. It will provide a landscaped setting to the new library and make the most of new investment that is being made into the old college site.
Posted on Monday 21st April 2008