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.
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