Regent Arcade is half way through its massive transformation
REGENT Arcade is half way through its £20 million transformation.
Work on the makeover started in March and is on target to be completed in May next year.
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On the go: The Regent Arcade revamp
The year-long renovation of the High Street shopping centre will bring the much awaited H&M to Cheltenham.
Shoppers will also get the benefit of an enlarged River Island .
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The revamp, which will also see the main entrance of the centre get a new Bath stone-clad facade, is currently on course to be completed on time.
The frontage will include a new lighting feature to welcome shoppers, following planning permission being granted for the work in 2008.
Town centre manager Martin Quantock said: "I know footfall has held up in the Regent Arcade so the disruption to the centre has obviously been managed very well.
"When you walk past I can hardly believe what was there once. When you look up there is just a hole and it feels a bit weird seeing it all open aired.
"It will be a surreal to see a before and after photograph.
"I think shoppers are really looking forward to seeing a H&M taking up residence.
"It has always been one of the names a lot of people mention they want in Cheltenham.
"At the moment people go to Gloucester to go to H&M and it really is one of the biggest shops we don't have.
"When it opens no one will have to go Gloucester to visit and so it will hopefully have a good effect for the rest of the town."
The H&M clothing store will take up three floors next to the arcade entrance and River Island will move next to Lloyds bank spanning two levels.
Hoardings and scaffolding have been up throughout the refurbishment to inform shoppers it is business as usual during the renovation.
Meanwhile TK Maxx wants to expand by 30 per cent, taking on extra space around its first-floor location.
The expansion for the designer-label shop is due to see the store re-launch in January or February next year.
Italian shirts for both men and women will soon be on sale as 7 Camicie sets to open in the arcade.
Comments
by Ms_Superstar
Monday, October 01 2012, 12:19AM
“7 Camicie has opened this week in the Beechwood arcade (sorry guys, I hate button-down collars).
Is there to be an additional one in the Regent Arcade, or has TiG got the wrong location?”
by Steve_Thomas
Saturday, September 29 2012, 2:41PM
“In terms of the arcade, I think glazing-in the front, where there used to be a portico, makes it look a bit cheapskate, as if they're trying to squeeze the most profit out of every available inch of space.
Perhaps just as exciting, if not more so, is what is happening at the other end of the arcade, which is part-pedestrianisation of Regent Street and more focus on pavement cafes. I just hope they get the hint that they need to be open in the evening, when there are potentially more customers wanting coffee and light snacks.”
by Steve_Thomas
Saturday, September 29 2012, 2:32PM
“H&H is a popular misinterpretation of the name H||H, pronounced H-Bar-H. (Harrison, Barr Hill).
This was a manufacturer of high-end professional audio equipment in the 1970s and early '80s.
Part of their trademark and unique selling point was that their amplifiers and effect pedals featured a green electroluminescent panel behind the controls. They were also one of the first to bring out an entirely solid-state valve effect, which was identified by an image of a Mullard EL34 pentode.
In the late '80s they changed their name to HIT, before disappearing completely. Some of their kit is still available cheaply on the secondhand market (e.g. eBay).”
by NibNobs
Saturday, September 29 2012, 1:49PM
“Grahambarker,
What is H&H then?
I'm sure H&M clothes are made in the same Asian factory that Jack Wills stuff is - then sold for 4 times the price to gullible (parents of) teenagers.”
by Grahambarker
Saturday, September 29 2012, 10:52AM
“Re H&H. If that is all Cheltenham Retails Managers are aiminhg at, then the town is a dead duck.
Should be aiming higher and have more ambition than for a (yet another) store selling tatty cheap clothes made in foreign sweat shops - we have enough of those already.
But some one will get a congratulatory handshake and a bonus for this no doubt.”