Retail Display Equipment & Shop Fittings

You may remember but back in February this year Valentinos Displays published a blog post to announce that Whiteley Shopping Centre was to open shortly as the official announcement had then been set of May 23rd 2013. We also published in 2011 it’s initial plans of the redevelopment of the site.

Whiteley Shopping Centre is off the M27 motorway junction 9 which is located between Portsmouth & Southampton. We are now only 1 week away from the official opening of the new 320,000 sq foot shopping centre which is a £64 million pound development comprising over 50 units adjacent to the existing Tesco which is there.

Over the past few months whilst the building site has been getting close to completion we have seen hundreds of people queue up for employment positions within the new complex. There was an open day at the nearby Solent Hotel for those looking for employment opportunities with 1000 positions available for the right candidates.

Below is a video taken by a local newspaper, Daily Echo Southampton. The video highlights the queues for that particular day for those out of work looking for jobs. The queues were crazy and obviously in the present economic climate a larger number of candidates applied than the number of positions available.

The shopping centre will offer 3 hours free parking in it’s car parks; East, South, North A & North B. The Tesco car park will offer it’s customers 2 hours free parking & Market Square car park will offer 1 hour free parking. These are all within the hours of 7am – 6pm. For more information on the parking at Whiteley Shopping Centre you can visit this page here.

Some of the shops at Whiteley will include; Bank, The Body Shop, Boots, Carphone Warehouse, Clarks, Clintons, Fat Face, H&M, Moss, M&S, Next, Schuh, Topman, Topshop & River Island. A full list of the shops can be seen here. There are also many dining and coffee shops which include the likes of; Caffe Nero, Costa, Harvester, Starbucks, Prezzo, Subway & Chimichanga.

Below is the centre plan for Whiteley Shopping Centre.

We at Valentino’s are looking forward to visiting the new retail outlet in Whiteley next week and updating you on its official opening.

This week Valentino’s has been supporting a local business – Baby Star Beauty which is based in Whiteley, Fareham off junction 9 of the M27 between Southampton & Portsmouth.

Baby Star Beauty offer a selection of treatments including Gel Nails, Eyelash Extensions & Spray Tanning with a mobile service in the surrounding local areas such as Park Gate, Locks Heath & Sarisbury Green.

Open 7 days a week from 9am till 9pm appointments can be made around your busy lifestyle if going to the salon is too much bother let the salon come to you! Dedicated to offering a great service using top quality beauty products at excellent prices ensuring each and every client receives nothing less than a first class beauty experience.

We have supported the business expand in the last few weeks with numerous display products and are actively offering assistance where possible. Valentino’s wishes Baby Star Beauty all the success in the future in growing their beauty salon business further. You can visit their Facebook page here.