Future Plans
In recent times, parts of Brandon Shopping Centre have undergone modernisation works. The Merry Street section has been completed, along with the Hamilton Street section, whilst the Muir Street section, giving access to the town railway station, was completed and re-opened on November 2012.
A new retailer, Perfect Home, moved into the majority of the ground floor of the former ASDA site, with a gym operator initially showing an interest in occupying the final unoccupied section of the ground floor and the entire first floor. However in 2013, Chester Properties unveiled plans for a new food and drink restaurant in that vacated slot, with work started in February 2013.
On the outskirts of the centre, next to the town railway station, two park-and-ride car parks were constructed as part of station renovation, that created a combined 200 spaces. It has led to a decrease in car-parking congestion in the two centre car parks, as well as increasing the centre's overall economy.
Plans have also been unveiled, by Chester Properties, to construct a stilted food supermarket on the east side to challenge a proposed Sainsbury's supermarket development on Hamilton Road (roughly a mile away). This idea has been proposed as a way of keeping shoppers in the town centre.
There has also been some extensive renovation to the centre as a whole, with the canopy on the South side now removed and archways installed. Once the renovations are complete, the centre will be renamed Motherwell Shopping Centre.
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