Meadowhall Interchange Sheffield. However, limited services continued to serve Brightside for several years after the opening of Meadowhall Interchange, with Brightside station finally closing in 1995. Meadowhall Interchange was constructed to serve the new Meadowhall shopping centre, which opened on 4 September 1990 on the site of abandoned steelworks in the Don Valley in north-east Sheffield. The interchange was constructed to the north of the shopping centre on the opposite bank of the River Don, with a pedestrian suspension bridge linking the interchange with the shopping centre. The heavy rail and bus and coach stations opened in 1990. The Sheffield Supertram light
Meadowhall (shopping centre) stores such as Tag Heuer, Flannels, Joe Browns, Skinny Dip and River Island Children making the centre being perceived as more "upmarket". Restaurants such as Handmade Burger Co and Pizza Express in the Oasis Dining quarter have also been refurbished with a new Gourmet Burger Kitchen. In May 2012, British Land announced that planning permission had been sought to provide a 52,000 sq.ft. (4831 m²) retail extension to Meadowhall on adjacent land, the plans however were not approved. In December 2014 a new Next home store and a Costa Coffee drive-thru was opened on the land next to Meadowhall where