Land Sec pushes the start button on Trinity Leeds
Published: 22 July, 2010
Land Securities has decided to start construction on the milion-sq ft Trinity Leeds development in Leeds city centre
Trinity Leeds becomes the first major retail-led development in the UK to get the go ahead in recent times. The development is already 47 per cent pre-let or in solicitors hands including new flagship stores for TopShop/TopMan, H&M, River Island and Next with Hollister and Cult set to make their Leeds debuts.
The new retailers will join the existing major stores of Marks & Spencer, Bhs and Boots, creating one of the strongest retail offers in a regional UK city when it opens in Spring 2013.
Richard Akers, managing director retail for Land Securities, said: “We have seen a building of momentum with the level of secured lettings demonstrating the confidence in Leeds as a destination and in the Trinity Leeds project, which is the first major development scheme outside London to go live.
“The quality of retailers that we have signed to the scheme supports Land Securities’ view that there is demand from retailers for the right property in the right location.”
The development will offer more than 120 retail units and will include a new casual dining and leisure quarter including the first Everyman Cinema in the North and restaurant operators Carluccio’s and Yo!Sushi. The Leeds Shopping Plaza will be extensively re-modelled to enable its seamless integration within the new shopping and leisure environment.
Letting agents for Trinity Leeds are Central Retail, Cushman & Wakefield, Jones Lang LaSalle and Shelley Sandzer.
