The £18m Waitrose scheme involves the redevelopment of the Grade II listed Midland Goods Shed and East Handyside Canopy at King’s Cross station.
A 29,000-square-foot food and wine store will be built at ground floor level along with 25,000-square-foot of speculative office space.
The Midland Goods Shed was built by the Great Northern Railway in 1850 and served as a temporary passenger terminal while the current King’s Cross station was being built.
Subject to planning pemission and funding, construction is anticipated to start in late 2013 with the supermarket due to open in spring 2015. A cookery school is also planned as part of the project.
King’s Cross is being developed by the King's Cross Central Ltd Partnership, which brings together Argent King’s Cross Ltd Partnership, London & Continental Railways and DHL Supply Chain.
Bennetts Associates is architect for the restoration and conversion.
Kier is already on site at the 67-acre King’s Cross scheme constructing ArtHouse. Comprising 143 high quality one, two, three and four-bedroom properties over eight floors, ArtHouse will provide the development’s first open market homes as well as 29 affordable homes with One Housing Group, and is due for completion in autumn this year.
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