Hull Fruit Market Regeneration

Transforming the

Hull Fruit Market

The Hull Fruit Market is one of Yorkshire’s best housing regeneration projects. With a £83.6 million investment and offering 733 jobs between 2013 and 2024, it is the largest development Hull has seen in over half a century. It was a success in maximising economic and cultural outputs in time for the City of Culture events in 2017, with post-2017 plans to build on the legacy of its creativity, leisure, independent businesses, and exciting new digital hub.

Originally, the Hull Fruit Market unsurprisingly revolved around the fruit trade until as recently as 2009. While greatly used for business, its population was tightly packed and entertained residents and visitors with its circus and theatre. This is what fuels the developers’ vision. They aim to bring back this independent trading and community spirit, paying respect to its former life and making it ‘the heartbeat of Hull’.

Hull Fruit Market consists of a £24 million residential development, homing 300 residents in a close-knit community, and a 350-space multi-storey car park, supporting businesses and the economy of the wider city centre. Both residential and commercial developments are at the Fruit Market’s heart. Refurbishing warehouses and historic buildings back into use is even in the plan. As an emerging digital hub, to become Hull’s digital and creative quarter while forming a part of the Old Town Conservation Area, a tech campus has been developed and has already generated hundreds of high-skilled digital jobs. But the thriving Humber Street is the Fruit Market’s main success.