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Hopes that a much-loved historic building on Tyneside will be restored have been raised after a developer agreed a deal to take over the site.
Manchester-based social impact developers Capital & Centric have acquired Gateshead ’s Old Town Hall, which stopped being the town’s main civic building in the 1980s and has has lain mostly empty in recent years.
The building - which was used for filming of the TV show Vera earlier this year - is Grade II listed and has provided a home for a number of social and cultural sector bodies in recent years while efforts have been made to find a permanent use for it. Plans for a dinosaur-themed attraction and an “Unnatural History Museum” emerged in 2018 but did
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