Plans to improve a Swindon department store are underway.
Marks and Spencer bosses are working out big changes that will soon be made to its North Swindon store in the Orbital Shopping Park.
The full extent of the transformation has not yet been revealed but details about the major revamp are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
Rumours swirling on social media suggest that the investment may involve expanding into the vacant Outfit unit next door which once sold fashion by Burton, Topman, Oasis, Wallis, Topshop and Dorothy Perkins.
The extra space may be used to sell more home furniture and extend the food hall, though this has not been confirmed.
The food and clothing retailer’s store on 81 Regent Street, based inside the Brunel Shopping Centre, will soon close as part of what the company described in August as a store estate transformation.
The Orbital site, as well as the clothing-focused Designer Outlet branch and the M&S Foodhall in Mannington Retail Park, will remain open.
An M&S spokesperson said: “We are currently working with British Land on plans to invest in our M&S Swindon Orbital store and we hope to be able to share more news on these plans later in the year.”
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