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Based upon a masterplan that was approved in 2011, the North Star Village complex will feature circa 500,000sq of city-enhancing placemaking, the scheme has had more totalling over £7M. This has led to record footfall and turnover
the iconic Grade II* listed building and surrounding area ft of retail, dining and leisure, including one of the UK’s largest than £1bn in investment and will create a 1.7 million square for the year of 2018. The Banbridge-based premium shopping
of Battersea Power Station is being reimagined as a place ski and snow centres, with two real snow indoor ski slopes. It feet urban resort, comprising 850,000sq ft of retail space. centre is bucking the industry-trend with an impressive +12
for locals, tourists and residents to enjoy a unique blend of will also house a 13-screen cinema, including Europe’s largest The project will be anchored by John Lewis, a five-screen per cent footfall, +16 per cent turnover and +14 per cent
restaurants, shops, parks and cultural spaces. This 42-acre, IMAX screen, along with a 19-lane bowling alley and circa Everyman Cinema, luxury aparthotel brand Roomzzz, and ROI visitors when compared to the UK average of -2.6 per
eight-phase regeneration will create hundreds of new shops, 27,000sq ft of trampoline space. Developer SevenCapital is a world-class 244-room W Edinburgh, representing the cent in December 2018. The expansion of the retail offering,
restaurants, offices, cultural, venues, homes, a hotel and over aiming for a 2021 completion date. hotel brand’s first hotel in Scotland. The Edinburgh St James an investment in redevelopment and enhancement of the
18 acres of public space, including a new six-acre park. The Regeneration experts Queensberry, in partnership with development will strengthen Edinburgh’s global standing by customer experience highlights what it takes to drive footfall.
Power Station itself is set to become home to Apple’s new Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, have announced transforming the city’s east end and become an inspiring, Central Plaza, an upcoming project in Dublin in the
London campus, opening is down for 2021 and the scheme that Nando’s will be the latest restaurant to commit to The attractive and vibrant destination for people to live, shop, Republic of Ireland by developer Hines, in conjunction with
will become of the capital’s top retail and leisure destinations. Glass Works, Barnsley. The legendary ‘peri-peri’ restaurant experience and play. the Peterson Group and leasing agents BNP Paribas Real
Forty glass-fronted stores and restaurants will be built to group has agreed to take 3,634sq ft on a 20 year lease at The next phase of the regeneration of the Glasgow Estate Ireland is due to complete in late 2019, with the first
create a 135,000sq ft upmarket shopping destination to rival the £180M transformative town centre scheme that combines waterfront has taken a significant step forward following the tenant openings expected in early 2020. The project is a
St Pancras International at the former Waterloo Eurostar retail, leisure and cultural uses. The Glass Works will offer submission of an Approval of Matters Specified in Condition dynamic new retail hub on Dublin’s favourite north/south
Terminal, with developers hoping the scheme will open by 500,000sq ft of diverse retail and leisure uses, including a planning application for a transformational 350,000sq ft mixed- shopping route. This has always been one of the city’s livelier
April 2021. London and Continental Railways have already 13-screen Cineworld and Superbowl UK. Retail anchor NEXT use development at Glasgow Harbour. The investment into the pedestrian zones and now people will have a number of
signed Time Out Market as an anchor tenant, consisting is already signed up to the scheme, along with Muffin Break, city will deliver a new waterfront destination on the river Clyde reasons to stop and linger. An iconic city plaza and three of
of 17 restaurants and three bars across two floors. Once independent restaurant MEET and JD Sports – with the latter along with thousands of associated retail and construction jobs, the area’s most distinctive buildings are being remodelled to
complete, the destination will be certainly popular with opening later this year. The new retail, leisure and cultural uses revitalising a key gap site and making Glasgow a city on the river create a new shopping destination that’s full of character – and
commuters, and it will try to replicate the success of King’s will sit alongside a 494 multi-storey car park and high-quality not by the river. The Glasgow Harbour Lifestyle Outlet, which is choice eateries. Upon completion, the scheme will provide
Cross St Pancras, which saw retail sales grow 10 per cent on public realm, creating a new civic meeting place and greater scheduled to open in 2021, will include retail space, restaurants 12,500sq m of retail, food and beverage and office space.
a like-for-like basis in the 2018 Christmas period. connectivity to the rest of the town. The new town centre and cafes, a waterfront promenade, a new cinema, gym, family Also in the planning pipeline by Hines is Cherrywood Town
Full planning consent has been approved for a £270M is due to launch in spring 2021 and estimates suggest the leisure facilities, public square and event space will deliver vibrant Centre. Recently granted planning permission, the scheme will
regional leisure destination in Swindon. Phase one of the scheme will generate approximately 1,100 new jobs by 2025. outlets with a balanced combination of entertainment and comprise a town centre of approximately 67,000sq m, providing
North Star Village, by SevenCapital, received the go ahead this Meanwhile in Scotland, possibly the biggest redevelopment experience as it becomes a major leisure attraction in the city. a new quadrant of retail, leisure, cinema and F&B in south
evening, less than 17 months after the leading UK developer in the country is taking place in Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Northern Ireland’s award winning outlet centre, The county Dublin. The new town centre will be constructed on an
took the reins on this much-anticipated project. Set to have a St James project is being developed by Nuveen Real Estate Boulevard which is owned by The Lotus Group had a elevated site integrating the existing Luas stops at Cherrywood
game-changing effect on Swindon and the surrounding area, and is on course for a 2020 opening. A world-class example successful relaunch last year after a high level of investment and Bride’s Glen. Delivery of the new build is expected in 2021.

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