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public. Falco Lounge, Coffee Boy, JD Sports and
Top Left: St James Quarter, Edinburgh
Developer: Nuveen
Top Right: McArthurGlen Designer Outlet
West Midlands, Cannock, Staffordshire
Developer: McArthurGlen
Bottom Right: The Glass Works, Barnsley
Developer: Queensberry
Bottom Left: Battersea Power Station, London
Developer: Battersea Power Station Development
Company
Deichmann are also welcoming shoppers and
visitors once again. The full scheme will be
launched in phases over the next four-to-
six months. The first new openings, which
will take place on 9 September, will see
Next, TK Maxx and Sports Direct
(with USC) unveil their brand-new
Barnsley stores, with recent signing
Flannels anticipated to open very
soon.
Back in April McArthurGlen
celebrated the opening of McArthurGlen
Designer Outlet West Midlands, its major
new £160M fashion destination that is set
to be the only stand-alone shopping centre to
open in the UK this year. A significant moment
for McArthurGlen, it marked the group’s first UK
opening in over 20 years, as well as a return to the
market where it introduced the concept of designer
outlet retailing in Europe with Cheshire Oaks in 1995.
Located just 30-minutes from Birmingham, the 285,000sq
ft (when all phase are complete) outlet provides customers
with one of the country’s finest open-air retail and leisure
experiences, offering up to 80 iconic brands in its first phase
with year-round savings of up to 60 per cent. Underlining the
centre’s excellent fashion offer is a collection of sought-after
international brand partners, including Coach, Kate Spade, Hugo
Boss, Levi’s, Lacoste, Tommy Hilfiger, Guess, Calvin Klein, Ted
Baker, Reiss, Kurt Geiger, Gant, Radley and Joules.
Having signed a lease on a landmark sustainable café and
restaurant in its new coastal park, Swansea Council has
given the clearest indication yet that the vision behind
its £1bn transformation of the city is one focused
on creating opportunities for local businesses and
residents. An integral part of the ambitious city-
wide regeneration of Swansea by Swansea
Council, Copr Bay will be a vibrant new
neighbourhood for culture and leisure, ideally
located between Swansea’s city centre
and its spectacular beach. It will boast a
world-class live performance arena and
conference centre, a new hotel, over
an acre of new landscaped gardens,
homes, offices and neighbourhood
restaurants. Phase one of the scheme
is set to open later this year, before
being closely followed by phase two and
the ATG Arena. Copr Bay Phase Two
could include additional homes, retail and
offices, such as an office hub for public sector
workers.
Being developed by VINCI Construction UK
for Cheshire West & Cheshire Council, the new
development is not a new shopping centre, it is a
development of open streets, parades and plazas that
will integrate seamlessly with the surrounding parts of
Chester City Centre. Phase one of the development of the
Chester Northgate site will deliver a new six-screen, 715-
seat Picturehouse cinema along with a new home for Chester’s
market. Alongside these will be a number of restaurants and
cafés facing onto a new public square and also lining an arcade
formed by the old library building. The development, due to open
in summer 2022, will build on the success of Storyhouse and complement the existing
businesses on Northgate Street. The old library frontage will be transformed into a
new arcade and provide a stunning arched entrance into the development, which will
also be accessible from Hunter Street and Princess Street.
Battersea Power Station by developers Battersea Power Station Development
Company is at the heart of one of central London’s largest, most visionary and
eagerly anticipated new developments, which will see this vast 42-acre (over eight
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