British Land and Hercules Unit Trust (HUT) has signed up a number of new food and beverage lettings at Glasgow Fort. These lettings follow the completion of the new £12m Leisure Quarter which features four restaurants and a 600-space multi-storey car park.
The lettings are as follows:
Gourmet Burger Kitchen (3,000 sq ft, 15 year lease)
Thaikhun (3,750 sq ft, 15 year lease)
YO! Sushi will transform the centre’s entrance with a 2,300 sq ft restaurant on a 20 year lease.
Costahas upsized and will open one of its largest UK units taking 3,500 sq ft on a 10 year lease.
Pret a Manger will operate a bespoke 2,500 sq ft glazed pod featuring a green living wall on a 20 year lease.
Cafe Rougehas taken 3,900 sq ft on a 15 year lease for its first Scottish out-of-town restaurant.
Nando’s , which has traded very successfully since first opening at Glasgow Fort, has extended into an adjacent unit almost doubling its space to 4,700 sq ft on a 15 year lease.
James Duck, Asset Manager for British Land, said, “Glasgow Fort is a great example of how we’re creating outstanding places that reflect people’s changing lifestyles, and there’s more to come.
“Glasgow Fort’s continued outperformance gave us the confidence to develop the Leisure Quarter increasing the breadth and depth of our food and beverage offering and providing an additional 600 car parking spaces to accommodate growing customer numbers.”
The Leisure Quarter provides almost 3,000 sq ft of outdoor dining space, green public spaces, an improved public realm and children’s pocket parks providing places to gather, socialise and play in between the restaurants.
Delivery of the Leisure Quarter follows the opening of a £35.5 million retail extension anchored by a full-line 80,000 sq ft M&S in 2015 and a £9 million leisure extension in 2013. The extensions have changed the demographic of people shopping at the centre and delivered footfall increases.
Glasgow Fort is ranked as the top UK centre in its category by Javelin (Venuescore 2016) and is the top centre in its category in Scotland according to CACI.
Glasgow Fort has a catchment of over 2 million people and now features 90 leading shopping and leisure brands including Zara, Pandora, Topshop, River Island, Fat Face, KIKO Milano, schuh and Wagamama. Glasgow Fort has extended opening hours until 10pm, the longest of any Scottish centre, with 50% of trade taking place after 5pm.
