Newcastle city centre’s Marks & Spencer set to undergo design transformation

M&S has announced a £13million investment to its North East store estate and has confirmed that the retailer’s Northumberland Street store will undergo a design transformation.

Work on the “top-to-bottom, multi-million pound redesign”, is set to begin later this month and is expected to be complete by early 2024.

It will see a fresh-market style Foodhall, along with a refreshed clothing, home and beauty department.

The investment builds on improvement work that was carried out to M&S Silverlink and M&S Gosforth Foodhall.

Helen Cowie, regional manager for the North East at M&S, has welcomed the investment to the retailer’s North East estate.

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She said: “M&S has been a part of local communities across the North East for well over a hundred years, and throughout that time we’ve always been innovating to keep delivering an excellent shopping experience for our customers – whether it’s the opening of one of our first ever Penny Bazaars in Newcastle’s famous Grainger Market in 1895, or launching our first ever shopping centre site in the country at the Metro Centre in 1986.

“We’re proud to have been trading from our store on Northumberland Street since 1932.

“Over the years we’ve undertaken plenty of refurbishments and extensions to make sure the store keeps delivering for local customers and today’s investment – as well as our plans for an exciting new store at Washington Galleries – shows that we’re as committed as ever to offering shoppers in the North East the very best of M&S.”