Shopping centre stays in style with retailers
THE Frenchgate Shopping Centre in Doncaster has announced further additions and significant investment to its line-up, reflecting a vote of confidence from retailers.
A substantial upsize for JD Sports coincides with the addition of F. Hinds the Jewellers as well as confirmation that seven other retailers have signed up for refurbishment at the destination.
JD Sports is to relocate and upsize to an 8,500 sq ft store, almost three times its original size, adjacent to HMV and EE on the first floor. Also located on the first floor, F. Hinds has recently opened a new 1,100 sq ft store.
To accommodate the moves, Dorothy Perkins will be relocating to a 3,600 sq ft store on the ground floor and Miss Selfridge will be relocating to the first floor as part of a proposed new fit out with TopShop.
In addition, numerous existing leading retailers at Frenchgate including H&M, Next, H. Samuel and Quiz have announced plans to refurbish their current stores.
This follows the recent new deals and fit outs at Frenchgate for Ed’s Easy Diner, Garage Shoes and jewellery department stores, Pandora and Argento. In total, the 14 brands constitute more than 83,000 sq ft and approximately £2.75m of investment in store fit outs.
The Frenchgate Limited Partnership’s Paul Devlin said: “These recent exciting retailer and food and beverage deals add to the impressive line-up at Frenchgate and strengthen its position in the region. 2015 saw the addition of 22 lettings and we have already added six more since the beginning of the year.
“We continue to actively manage our offer to provide local and regional consumers with the best choice possible when they visit. This is an on-going process and there will be further exciting announcements in the forthcoming months with a further five deals currently in solicitors’ hands.”
Frenchgate’s latest additions follow a total of 22 new lettings in 2015, totalling almost 65,000 sq ft of space, which includes a 15,800 sq ft store for New Look.
Rawstron Johnson and Time Retail Partners acted for Frenchgate.
