 In 1983 Marks and Spencer purchased the local department store "Lawson and Stockdale," whose frontage ran along Victoria Street; they demolished the building and constructed a new store, linked to the centre.In 1990 the council agreed to sell the surface parking area around the shopping centre to Hammerson's UK Ltd.The development owner and Humberside County Council, the highway authority, agreed to the sale of the area of "Baxtergate", the road which ran to the rear of the shopping centre, between the shopping centre and the surface car park.