Las Iguanas, a Latin American restaurant and Costa Coffee are due to open at Gunwharf Quays, in Portsmouth Harbour.
Costa Coffee will joining Caffe Nero, Café Giardino, Café Rouge and Starbucks.
Las Iguana will be creating a 140 seat restaurant, meaning lots of waitressing opportunities. It joins Raymond Blanc’s Brasserie Blanc which opened in the summer.
Urban fashion outlet Bench is opening a new store at Gunwharf Quay in Portsmouth, if the surf isn’t up get down there for a job and talk about all the massive waves you’ve caught!
Centros Miller, the developer of Portsmouth’s Northern Quarter, has now confirmed that Marks & Spencer will join John Lewis to form the two main retail anchors of the £500m city centre development creating huge numbers of jobs for the local area.
M&S will create two new shopping streets leading from Commercial Road to a public piazza and linking into the existing Cascades shopping centre. Northern Quarter will also provide more than 80 other new shops, cafés and restaurants, 200 residential apartments, 2,300 car parking spaces, plus bus and taxi facilities, again creating thousands of part time jobs in Portsmouth.
The development already has outline planning consent, and construction is scheduled to begin in 2008 with completion due in late 2010.
Restaurateur Raymond Blanc is to bring his successful Brasserie Blanc format to Land Securities’ and Berkeley Group’s Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth. He has signed a new 25-year lease on part of the newly developed East Side Plaza at Gunwharf.
Brasserie Blanc aims to ‘provide the very best atmosphere with modern and authentic French cuisine’ and currently has outlets in Birmingham, Cheltenham, Manchester, Oxford and Tunbridge Wells.
You’ll be pleased to know that this ensures more employement and jobs on a permanent and part time basis for chefs and cleaners for many years going forward.
