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Westfield ‘review’ drags on as retail has worst year since 1995
Our retailing correspondent MT WALETTE can find no good news for the nation’s high streets – which is very bad news for Croydon’s retail-led town centre ‘regeneration’ Last year was the worst on record for retailing in this country, with … Continue reading
Westfield woe as high street sales fall ‘worst since the crash’
The prospects of Westfield ever making good on their promise to redevelop the town centre appear to be receding by the week, while Croydon’s Labour-run council cravenly gives in to the developers by withholding vital information about the long-delayed project. … Continue reading
Workers fear House of Fraser store’s lease won’t be renewed
Our retailing correspondent MT WALLETTE reports on suggestions that House of Fraser is considering the status of its Centrale lease There’s growing concern among staff and workers at one of Croydon’s last remaining department stores about the future for their … Continue reading
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Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, House of Fraser, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Council breaks the law to keep Newman’s Westfield letter secret
Town Hall reporter KEN LEE on how the increasingly secretive Labour council appears to have something to hide over the future of the town centre’s long-delayed redevelopment Croydon Council is trying to keep secret the contents of a letter sent … Continue reading
Centrale’s Debenhams is given a reprieve – but for how long?
Our retailing crisis correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on worrying times for employees in one of the town centre’s last remaining department stores Staff working in Debenhams in Croydon’s Centrale shopping centre were given a reprieve this morning when their store was … Continue reading
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Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Debenhams, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Debenhams administration puts Centrale store under threat
Another day, another body blow to the prospects of Croydon’s town centre getting the retail regeneration that has been promised for the past seven years or more. Today’s latest nail in the coffin for high street retailing is the news … Continue reading
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Tagged Centrale, Debenhams, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Mike Ashley, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Fears for mall increase as Hammerson takes a hammering
Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on how the plunging share price for half of the so-called ‘Croydon Partnership’ could see the redevelopment of the town centre postponed … permanently The stock market is becoming increasingly nervous about the valuation of … Continue reading
More retailers in peril as Green scandal hits the High Street
It may yet become known among retailers as “Black Thursday”, the day when the doomed fate of Britain’s High Street was sealed. It was certainly a day when the business case for the long-delayed £1.4billion redevelopment of the Whitgift and … Continue reading
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Tagged Centrale, Debenhams, Hammersfield, Hammerson, House of Fraser, Kate Moss, Philip Green, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Now Debenhams could be seeking rent break from Centrale
Our retailing correspondent, MT WALLETTE, on the latest set-back to a £1.4billion redevelopment of the town centre based on retailing Hammerson, one half of The Croydon Partnership which wants to rebuild a vast town centre shopping mall, could face the … Continue reading
More trouble in store as House of Fraser is sold to Ashley
MT WALLETTE, our retailing correspondent, on the latest set-back for Croydon’s plans for a £1.4bn temple to shopping House of Fraser, the troubled department store, has this morning been snatched out of administration by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley for … Continue reading
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Tagged Centrale, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, Hammerson, House of Fraser, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Sarah Jones MP, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Council has contingency plan for ‘blighted’ Westfield scheme
The council is readying itself for a ‘hard Crexit’ over a £1.4bn town centre redevelopment, according to industry watchers. By WALTER CRONXITE There could be a further delay of two more years, to 2025, before the new Westfield shopping mall … Continue reading
Brent Cross takes a £1.4bn hit as Hammerson signals a go-slow
High Street closures and Brexit uncertainties mean that retail landlord Hammerson is getting cold feet over redevelopment schemes for its shopping centres around the capital. WALTER CRONXITE reports Hammerson has shelved its plans for the £1.4billion redevelopment of its Brent … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Centrale’s House of Fraser saved – for now – from closure
M.T. WALLETTE, our retailing correspondent, on the latest piece of almost good news for Croydon town centre, as the chairman of one department store talks of the ‘existential threat’ to business on the High Street Croydon’s House of Fraser, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Centrale, Croydon, Hammersfield, Hammerson, House of Fraser, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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