{"id":148148,"date":"2025-11-22T13:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148148\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:19:07","slug":"middlesbrough-art-gallery-plans-for-former-h-samuel-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/148148\/","title":{"rendered":"Middlesbrough art gallery plans for former H. Samuel store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project is part of the Creative Factory initiative, which aims to provide long-term sustainability and investment for the cultural and creative sector, along with an ambition to develop 50,000 sq ft of &#8220;creative space&#8221;, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A council scrutiny committee heard some other buildings had been acquired as part of the scheme, including residential properties on Princes Road, which will become four one-bed apartments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we&#8217;re looking at is three long-term tenants, that want live-work space and then we&#8217;ll keep one of the other apartments for visiting artists and as a kind of community space,&#8221; Ms Byrne said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added it was hoped the first tenants would be in by March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gaye Kirby, head of culture at Middlesbrough Council, said the creative sector was already &#8220;really well embedded&#8221; throughout the town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The project is part of the Creative Factory initiative, which aims to provide long-term sustainability and investment for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-148148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}