The Cultural Industries Quarter is a district in the

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, and one of the eleven Quarters designated in the 1994 City Centre Strategy. It is roughly triangular in shape, and is bound by Howard Street,

Sheaf Square Sheaf Square is a municipal square lying immediately east of the city centre of Sheffield, England. The sides of the square are lined with major buildings: Sheffield railway station, the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield Science Park, the early nine ...

and Suffolk Road to the north-east, St Mary's Road to the south and Eyre Street and

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to the north-west, with Granville Square in the south-east. The name given reflects the intention to create a cluster of music, film and science-based businesses in the area. Organisations based in the area include: * Showroom/Workstation * Red Tape Music Studios * Leadmill nightclub and venue *

Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The university is based on two sites; the City Campus is located in the city centre near Sheffield station, Sheffield railway station, whil ...

and its

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(former

National Centre for Popular Music The National Centre for Popular Music was a museum in Sheffield, England, for pop and rock music Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, deve ...

) * Sheffield Institute of Art Gallery *

Sheffield Live Sheffield Live! is a local community radio and formally local TV station, established in 2003 as an independent company by the Community Media Association (CMA), and is based in the city centre of Sheffield, England. The radio has been broadca ...

Site Gallery Site Gallery is an art gallery in Sheffield, England. It specialises in moving image, new media and performance based art. Site Gallery is based at Brown Street in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter. It is an international centre for cont ...

Spearmint Rhino Spearmint Rhino is a chain of strip clubs that operates venues throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. The first Spearmint Rhino was located in Upland, California. Operations John Gray is the founder & CEO of Spearmint Rh ...

* CBC Computer Systems Ltd The

Sheffield Doc/Fest Sheffield DocFest (formerly styled Sheffield Doc/Fest; abbr.Sheffield International Documentary Festival or SIDF) is an international documentary Film festival, festival and industry marketplace held annually in Sheffield, England. The festiv ...

is held around the CIQ each June.

Significant buildings

The Butcher's Wheel Butchers Wheel or Butcher Works is a former cutlery and tool factory in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The last of the manufacturing tenants left in 2004. The building is a listed historic site, and is now used for residential and retail purposes ...

Stirling Works Stirling (; ; ) is a city in central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the royal citadel, the medieval old town with its merchants and tradesmen, the ...

#92 & 92a Arundel Street #113 Arundel Street #Sylvester Works #Venture Works #Truro Works #Columbia Place #Redwood House #Cooper Buildings

References

External links

Cultural Industries Quarter AgencyOfficial Site
Sheffield City Centre (quarters) Culture in Sheffield {{SouthYorkshire-geo-stub