Published: 27 August, 2009
Demolition has begun on the 1960s shopping parade in Madeley town centre. A 4,380-sq ft Tesco store will be constructed in its place, as well as 15 new commercial and 16 residential units, highway and public realm improvements and access to the library. The scheme, by Durward Kingsley Estates and Tesco, is due for completion in 2010.
British Land and USS have been given the green light for the £100m redevelopment of the Whiteley Village shopping centre near Fareham in Hampshire. Under the plans the existing Tesco superstore will be replaced with a Tesco Extra hypermarket and the existing outlet retail will be demolished, even though it is less than a decade old, and replaced by a convenience-led shopping mall.
Robert Goodman, Centre Director, One New Change
Robert was appointed to Centre Director, One New Change in the City of London. The £540m Land Securities mixed use development opened successfully in October 2010.
Robert is passionate about growing business for the benefit of customers, shareholders, stakeholders and colleagues. This has included roles in high street stores, UK and european airports and railway hubs and more recently shopping centres.
Previously Centre Director at Milton Keynes Shopping Centre from March 2007 during this time the centre was awarded BCSC Gold for established centre 2010, a Sunday Times Best Green Company and Sceptre Manager of the Year - Large Centre 2010.
Prior to that Robert held a number of roles in BAA plc the last being Retail, Marketing and Commercial Contracts Director at Budapest Airport, Hungary. Other roles included Retail Director BAA Scotland, Head of Retail and Developments at Gatwick Airport, and in BAA’s World Duty Free business in Heathrow and France.
Prior to airport retailing, Robert gained extensive retail experience with Marks and Spencer plc in a number of store and head office roles.
Robert holds a BSc Degree from London University.
Food operator Nandos has chosen the recently extended St Enoch Centre to open its first Glasgow-based restaurant. Fashion retailer Xile and designer jeweller Ortak are also taking units at the 765,000-sq ft scheme.
Six months after opening its doors, White River Place can announce that it is adding to its line-up with a 26,000-sq ft TK Maxx store, which is due to open this summer.
Over 32,000 sq ft of retail space has been signed up by retailers at The Rock in Bury. The new signings take the retail and leisure scheme to over three quarters let by space (exchanged and in solicitors’ hands) ahead of the launch on 16 July.
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