Confirmed: Newcastle’s Green Market to close in January
Since I broke the story, in January, official confirmation of the closure of Newcastle’s Green Market at High Friars has been rather slow in coming. Even back...
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Peacocks flies into Tamworth’s Ankerside centre
I was interested to find out a few days ago that the fashion retailer Peacocks will soon be opening a store in my old home town of Tamworth,...
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Newcastle city centre updates – Currys, Cotswold and Clinton’s
Heading into Newcastle today for a much-needed haircut, I had my usual wander around to see what was happening, retail property-wise. In Northumberland Street, the...
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Newhaven in East Sussex set to be the next Alworths stop
The BT Phone Book is now listing an Alworths store at 14 High Street in Newhaven, East Sussex – the town’s former Woolworths unit. There...
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Demolition of Gateshead’s Get Carter car park starts today
Since it opened in 1969, Gateshead town centre’s Trinity Square car park has been many things to different people, but always impossible to ignore. To some, it has been an icon...
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Clas Ohlson continues UK expansion with Merry Hill store
Swedish hardware retailer Clas Ohlson has announced today that it will be opening its eighth UK store at Westfield’s Merry Hill shopping centre, at Brierley...
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Joint TK Maxx and HomeSense store to open at MetroCentre in ‘late September’
The trouble of spending too much of my time visiting town centres and shopping malls is that I end up with more potential blog topics than I ever have...
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Second Tyneside Apple Store to open at MetroCentre
Just three months after opening a new store in the St Andrew’s Way extension of Eldon Square, I understand that Apple is poised to open...
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Newcastle’s new fashion meccas take shape
The opening of St Andrew’s Way back in February – and Hollister, belatedly, in April – may have been this year’s biggest retail events in Newcastle,...
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Hollister Newcastle opens 15 April
Eldon Square’s new Apple Store may have attracted the most buzz at the opening of St Andrew’s Way back in February, but it’s Hollister that’s still...
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Initial reactions to the new St Andrew’s Way mall at Eldon Square
I might have been busy at work at 10:30 a.m this morning, but many thousands of others evidently weren’t, judging from the crowds that attended the grand...
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Eldon Square’s St Andrew’s Way opens today (16 February 2010)!
There will be plenty of analysis of the new Eldon Square mall in Newcastle over the coming weeks, and reflection on the impact of St...
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Best brands and iron girders for new Eldon Square Republic store
With exciting mounting over the opening of Eldon Square’s St Andrew’s Way extension in less than a week’s time (10:30 on Tuesday 16 February, to be precise), it...
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Peacocks lined up for Newcastle’s former Zavvi
Peacocks has submitted a planning application for new signage at the former Zavvi site in Newcastle’s Northumberland Street, confirming recent rumours that the fashion retailer was being...
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Updates on Newcastle city centre’s new Tescos
Heavy overnight snow provided a good excuse to take a walk into Newcastle today, rather than trying to drive anywhere further afield. It was also...
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Three-storey retail tenant “secured” to replace Newcastle’s Green Market
As someone with an appetite for retail news stories, I like to occasionally visit Newcastle City Council’s planning applications website. Often, planning applications are where interesting...
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Newcastle gets Hollister, Tesco Express, new Next
A few interesting titbits of Newcastle retail news ahead of the opening of Eldon Square South – St Andrew’s Way – on 16 February. Anchored...
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Goodbye to Oil & Vinegar in Newcastle’s Eldon Square
After work, I trudged through the snow to the delightful Eldon Square Waitrose this evening, though not before giving the store a call to check that...
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Woolies Winter Wonderland…
…That was the theme of Woolworths’ 1998 Christmas TV advertisement, in the heady, Tellytubby days when, as the ad reminds us, everyone wanted a Talking Po....
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Newcastle’s Monument Mall transported through cyberspace to Staffordshire
It’s always fun to find links between my current home of Tyneside and my previous one of Staffordshire – Tamworth playing Gateshead in the Blue...
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