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All of Boots Opticians' laser eye surgeries were bought by Optical Express in late 2004. [ citation needed ] On 29 January 2009, it was announced that Boots Opticians were to merge with Dollond & Aitchison , forming a chain of 690 stores and 5,000 staff after Boots purchased a controlling share in D&A. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In May 2019, the company was ...
Originally opened in 1972, as The Arndale Shopping Centre, it was purchased by Capital & Regional in January 2006. [2] The centre has 147 shop units occupying 906,850 sq ft (84,249 m 2), and parking for 1,707 cars. The area that would become the new shopping centre was cleared during the 1960s.
The first Arndale Centre, in Jarrow, opened in 1961.It is now known as the Viking Centre. The Cross Gates Centre in Cross Gates, Leeds was an Arndale Centre until 2000.. In 1950, Arnold Hagenbach, a baker with a talent for property investment, and Sam Chippendale, an estate agent from Otley, set up a company called the Arndale Property Trust, the name being a portmanteau of "Arnold" and ...
Phase Two of the centre started in 1980 [7] and the Arndale Centre grew to its final size with the approval of Phase Two B after a Public Inquiry in January 1982. This was topped out in March 1984 in a ceremony involving the Mayor, Cllr Roger Buss and Mr Ron Jennings, the deputy chairman of the development company; Town and City Properties (who by this time had absorbed Arndale Property Trust ...
The Centre is a public open space in the central area of Bristol, England, created by covering over the River Frome. [1] The northern end of The Centre, known as Magpie Park, is skirted on its western edge by Colston Avenue; [2] the southern end is a larger paved area bounded by St Augustine's Parade to the west, Broad Quay the east, and St Augustine's Reach (part of the Floating Harbour) to ...
The area became the hub of the Bristol Tramways network, and was known as the Tramways Centre. [5] It was so called long after the last trams left in 1941, but is now known simply as The Centre . Between 1936 and 1938, the Centre was enlarged when more of the River Frome, between Broad Quay and St Augustine's Parade, was covered in, making way ...
A 1783 map of Eastbourne shows but a couple of farms in what was then the hamlet of Meads. [6] However, it is known that there were three in the 19th century: Place Farm, whose farmhouse survives as the listed building now known as Meads Place in Gaudick Road, Colstocks Farm, which stood on the site of St Andrew’s School and Sprays Farm, which was at the corner of Meads Street and Matlock ...
A redevelopment of Arndale was approved by the Charles Sturt Council on 11 October 2006, for the addition of 5,800 m² of lettable area and providing up to 50 new stores. This has resulted in a $100 million development, adding a total of 11,350 m² of floor space or roughly 28 percent more space than previous levels.