{"id":25476,"date":"2018-01-25T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T11:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=25476"},"modified":"2018-01-25T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T11:59:26","slug":"expansion-primark-store-merry-hill-shopping-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/25\/expansion-primark-store-merry-hill-shopping-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Expansion of Primark Store in Merry Hill Shopping Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primark store in Merry Hill mall, near Dudley , will expand into the empty BHS unit meaning the expansion will be 70 per cent bigger.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Round, regional director at Merry Hill owners intu, said: &#8220;The bigger store will enable Primark to have its entire range on show, which is clearly important for a chain that is focused on its shops rather than the internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The expanded store will offer around 60,000 sq ft of retail space.<\/p>\n<p>The escalator between the two shop fronts will be removed, as the lower floor premises are combined.<\/p>\n<p>the budget fashion retail store will also have an upper level.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Round added: \u201cAn increasing number of retailers are investing in new space at intu Merry Hill, reflecting the genuine confidence in the destination as a place where brands can really flourish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re looking forward to attracting even more great brands and creating compelling experiences for customers across the midlands as our plans for intu Merry Hill progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shopping centre is undergoing a <strong>massive \u00a3110 million expansion<\/strong> and renovation programme, bringing in new shops and plans for a giant restaurant quarter and leisure complex featuring a new cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Primark store in Merry Hill mall, near Dudley , will expand into the empty BHS unit meaning the expansion will be 70 per cent bigger. Nick Round, regional director at Merry Hill owners intu, said: &#8220;The bigger store will enable Primark to have its entire range on show, which is clearly important for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,53,3,112],"tags":[734],"class_list":["post-25476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-expansion-of-primark-store-in-merry-hill-shopping-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}