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Next and Primark are set to anchor the new £43 million mall reconfiguration at British Land’s Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield.
Due to open in Summer 2007, the reconfiguration will see a former Sainsbury's store redeveloped as mainstream retail. It forms part of a £91m upgrade at Meadowhall which will include the refurbishment of all the main mall areas.
Value fashion retailer Primark will enter the scheme with a unit of 73,000 sq ft, trading over two floors. And Next will relocate from its existing 40,000 sq ft store into a new 66,000 sq ft two-level unit, which will be its fifth-largest store in the country.
On the upper level the two stores will front onto a new mall leading to a spacious atrium. In addition to the new anchors the development will create another two-level store of 22,000 sq ft and four smaller units of around 3,000 sq ft each.
John Iddiols, deputy chief surveyor for British Land, said: “Meadowhall continues to go from strength to strength and the addition of Primark will attract even more customers and further broaden the Meadowhall offer. Next has performed very strongly at Meadowhall for 16 years and this new larger store will build on their loyal customer base."
British Land is now considering its options for the existing 40,000-sq ft Next store in the centre's Park Lane area, and it could either be relet as a whole or subdivided.
