A major outdoor clothing store is ‘closing down and relocating’ within East Kilbride shopping centre ahead of plans to demolish a mall.
Trespass has revealed it will be shutting up shop in Centre West on Friday, January 31, and moving to the Olympia/Southgate area of the town centre.
A sign on the shop front announced the closure to customers, reading: “Closing down and relocating. Everything must go. Relocating to Olympia/Southgate.”
Centre West, the newest part of the centre, built between 1999 and 2001 at a cost of £90million, is set to be demolished.
Despite being the newest part of the town centre, it has since lost flagship stores including Debenhams, Top Shop, Zara and many more big high street names.
After EK, East Kilbride fell into administration just weeks before Christmas 2022, South Lanarkshire Council has given the green light for a “bold” £62.2m 10-year masterplan that “will radically transform the shopping and leisure destination into a vibrant, high-quality urban environment”.
As part of the redevelopment, the neighbouring Centre West mall will be bulldozed and converted into a housing development, creating up to 400 new homes in the heart of the town.
Other retailers that have already moved premises ahead of demolition are travel agent TUI and Muffin Break who moved into the former Tim Hortons unit following its closure.
Centre management were contacted for comment.
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