Medway's largest toys and gifts shop D&A Toys is on the move in its 45th anniversary year. The long-running retailer is opening a new store on the ground floor of the Pentagon Centre in Chatham, opposite Card Factory. It is earmarked to open in "around 6 weeks", although an exact date is not known, according to a spokesperson for the Pentagon Centre. Its current store on the first floor is part of redevelopment plans for the council-owned shopping centre. The first floor of the Pentagon is set to become a healthy living centre and an innovation hub, which will be funded by a £9.5 million grant from the government's Future High Streets Fund. The £9.5m grant will also be spent on delivering a co-working space, conference and events hub in St John's Church in Railway Street, and improving the area around Mountbatten House which the council is converting into 164 flats having recently purchased it. All of these projects are set to be completed by March 2024. A closing down sale is now underway while the new shop is fitted out.
D&A Toys is moving into a unit previously occupied by Carphone Warehouse, which closed in spring 2020 after a decision by the company to shut all 531 of its standalone branches in the UK. The nationwide store closures led to 2,900 job losses. Comments are closed.
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