It's a New Look for Market Cross

It's a New Look for Market Cross

10 March 2008

New Look – one of the UK’s leading fashion retailers –  will move to the newly extended Market Cross Shopping Centre in Selby when work is completed on the multi million pound town centre scheme.

The major fashion store will have a brand new 11,000 sq ft unit at Market Cross  making the store five times bigger than New Look’s present outlet in the town. The shopping centre is owned by a joint partnership of Dransfield Properties Ltd and Ethel Austin Properties.

Since the two companies took over management of Market Cross the centre has undergone a phased improvement scheme which will culminate in an extension to the centre.  

New Look will be joining other major national and independent traders who are already trading well at the busy shopping centre  – including Holland and Barrett, Phones 4U, Home Bargains and Thomas Cook.

The move represents a major re-investment in the town and will vastly improve the range New Look is able to offer to its shoppers in Selby. Moving from Gowthorpe will also give another retailer the opportunity to open for trade in the town centre.

The £20 million expansion of Market Cross is due to get underway later this year. The scheme will involve the relocation of Selby Abbey Primary School. It will also deliver an extra 28,000 sq ft of additional retail space as well as delivering the extension of the Morrisons store in the town and creating more car parking spaces.

 Retail Property Director at Dransfield Properties, Andrew Malley, said: “New Look are presently in quite a small unit and moving to Market Cross means they can offer a much wider range to shoppers, this re-investment in the town is great news and shows the level of confidence national retailers such as New look have in Selby as a shopping centre.

“We have always aimed to get a good mix of high quality independent retailers at Market Cross as well as big national names, and with the cosmetic  improvements that have been made to the centre we are achieving that aim.”

For further information, contact:

Public Relations Department, Dransfield Properties Ltd
Tel: 01226 360644
Email: pr@dransfield.co.uk