Aire Park

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Aire Park is a planned 24 acres (9.7 ha) mixed-use development in Hunslet, south of the city centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is being developed by the international real estate organisation Vastint, and will mostly occupy the abandoned brownfield site of the former Tetley's Brewery. It is part of the Leeds South Bank development and is named after the River Aire, which flows nearby. As well as 8 acres (3.2 ha) of parkland, the development includes 1,400 new homes and almost 1 million sqft of commercial space. It will retain the Art Deco former brewery headquarters turned contemporary art gallery The Tetley, and Salem Chapel.

Hunslet is now an inner-city area of Leeds immediately south of Leeds railway station, bounded on the north and east by the River Aire. It was a rural village until rapid growth during the 19th century as a result of the Industrial Revolution. The area between Meadow Lane and Crown Point Road became the brewery of Joshua Tetley and Son in 1822, which was replaced by the construction of a new brewery designed by George Corson began in 1852. By 1860 Tetley was the largest brewery in the North of England, and in 1931, the Art Deco Tetley...