TDK have been appointed joint letting agents of an exciting new restaurant and leisure development at Abbey Retail Park, Newtownabbey by Hammerson.
Abbey Retail Park is one of the strongest Retail Park schemes in Greater Belfast currently comprising 250,000 sq.ft. and attracting over 200,000 cars per month. The scheme currently occupies Tesco, B&Q, Carpetright, Currys and PCWorld.
The restaurant terrace will comprise 4 new units and Hammerson are committed to developing the units to facilitate a Q4 2016 opening date and will complement the retail offer at Abbey Retail Park and the surrounding 1 million plus sq.ft. of neighboring retail including Abbeycentre and Longwood Retail Park.
Commenting on the instruction Mark Thallon Retail Partner at TDK said “We believe this exciting scheme will satisfy the existing demand from Food and Beverage operators currently looking to aggressively expand in Greater Belfast and across NI. This has been demonstrated recently in other schemes leisure schemes including Boucher Sq and Lisburn Leisure that TDK have been involved in. We are delighted with the initial level of interest received from established national and local catering operators and we are close to agreeing terms on the first unit to a national chain” The scheme will provide in excess of 12,000 sq.ft. of space and the completed units will be built to a high specification to include high level glazing, external seating areas and will benefit from in excess of 100 on site parking spaces.