Addington, in partnership with the shopping centre owners, announce a series of leisure deals at The Harvey Shopping Centre in Harlow, Essex, in anticipation of the opening of the new £9 million leisure development branded as “The Terrace” due to open in December 2016.
The Leisure Scheme, located within the shopping centre, has been under construction for the past 2 years and will include:
• A new six screen, 25,000 sq ft Cineworld Cinema – now confirmed opening in December 2016, in time for Christmas.
• Various restaurants and catering offers located alongside Cineworld including the opening of a new circa 4,000 sq ft Tinseltown American Diner, a new 4,000 sq ft Real China Buffet Restaurant, 1,000 sq ft Subway.
Various ancillary leisure related lettings including:
• The letting of 32,000 sq ft to Xercise4Less, the gym club on a new 15 year lease
• The letting of 2,500 sq ft to Gym’s Kitchen restaurant chain.
• The letting of 2,500 sq ft to Papa Cappuccino – an independent operator who already has two other restaurants in the town.
• The letting of circa 4,000 sq ft to Creams Café and Gelato on a 10 year lease at £70,000 pax.
Alex Wagstaff, Partner at Addington who is asset managing and redeveloping The Harvey Centre said, “Harlow has a limited dining/leisure offer and we believe any new caterers coming into our centre will benefit from this lack of competition and thrive.”
“We are very excited about the opening of the new leisure scheme which has taken two years to construct within the shopping centre. Cineworld will be a major attraction to the town centre and we have experienced a great level of interest and demand from both restaurants and other complimentary leisure uses that have really bought into our vision to transform the night-time economy of the town. Any new leisure operator will be able to benefit from the high footfall the shopping centre currently experiences, even without the leisure element, which currently stands at over 10.5 million customers, with footfall tending in excess of national averages. “
He continued, “ We now only have two other catering units currently available to let in this scheme.”
The Landlords’ agents are Brasier Freeth (Anthony Appleby) Fleurets (Graham Campbell) and GCW (Chris Hovington)
The Harvey Centre is thriving. Anchor tenants include Tesco, Primark, Deichmann, HMV, H.Samuel and Argos and the offering at the centre is set to expand further with a further number of new stores and leisure facilities. Footfall for the centre is trending much better than the national average – during July footfall was 172,139 on average per week.
Bryan Young, Centre Manager at The Harvey Centre says, “This is a hugely exciting time for the town – Harlow has always had a limited night time economy but when the cinema opens this will transform dramatically. Harlow will become a bustling town where people want to come after work with friends and family to eat and drink before checking out the latest blockbuster at Cineworld.”
