With less than a month to go until opening, Multi Development has signed another tranche of retailers for its £400m Victoria Square scheme in Belfast. Free Spirit, The Pier, Pepe Jeans, Pumpkin Patch, Douglas & Grahame, Starbucks, O2 and Hobbs will join more than 40 tenants already signed up.
Four of the new brands will be taking their first stores in Northern Ireland: Irish hairdresser Free Spirit with a 1,775 sq ft unit; The Pier, 6,242 sq ft; Pepe Jeans, 2,238 sq ft; and New Zealand-based brand Pumpkin Patch, 3,826 sq ft. Menswear specialist Douglas & Grahame is increasing its Belfast representation with a 2,110 sq ft unit; Hobbs, 3,392 sq ft; O2, 1,148 sq ft; and Starbucks, 1,984 sq ft.
Multi's leasing manager Richard Green said: "We are currently in excess of 90 per cent pre-let, and these latest deals demonstrate the diverse range that will be available for the first time in Northern Ireland." Victoria Square will open in March 2008, with 800,000 sq ft of retail over three floors above two levels of basement parking with 1,000 spaces. House of Fraser, Topshop, H&M and Urban Outfitters are among the retail anchors and the leisure element includes an Odeon cinema, restaurants, bars and cafés.
Savills Hamilton Osborne King and DTZ are joint letting agents.
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