Bosses at Bath's SouthGate shopping centre have seen a surge in retailers signing up for units in the last fortnight.
Designer shoe shops Kurt Geiger and tReds, clothes shops Cult, All Saints and Animal and speaker specialist Bose will all open stores in the first phase of the Pounds 360 million scheme in November.
The six retailers have signed up to begin trading when the first three blocks of SouthGate open in five weeks' time.
Big names already signed up Replica Oris include Boots and clothing giant New Look.
Replica Bedat & CO WatchSouthGate general manager Simon Pullen spoke at the Bath Chronicle Business Breakfast this week and said Multi - the Belfast- based developer behind the scheme - had just had its best two weeks to date on the leasing front.
Mr Pullen confirmed the company was considering the potential of a single level 25-room hotel within the scheme. Any hotel would be in blocks E or F of the development which face its central piazza on one side and Dorchester Street on the other. If a hotel developer signs up it will not welcome its first guests until May next year.
Fashion retailers Republic, Quiksilver and H&M will also be opening stores at SouthGate in the first phase on Wednesday, November 4, along
embroidered patches with Apple. That phase of SouthGate is now 80 per cent let with 72 per cent of those stores due to open on November 4. The second wave of stores will open ahead of the launch of a three- storey Debenhams flagship store in autumn next year.
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