Marks and Spencer has announced the opening date for its newest store in Nottinghamshire.
The food giant is opening up a new food hall in Newark later this month, the firm has announced.
M&S Newark, The Maltings, will sell food and clothing and offer click and collect for customers.
The store will be located at the new Maltings Retail Park in Northgate when it opens its doors for the first time on March 29.
The store posted on its Facebook page: "We are so very excited to announce that Marks and Spencer’s Newark will be opening our doors on March 29th!
"The Newark team can’t wait to meet you all!"
The post has received nearly 900 likes, along with hundreds of shares and comments, with shoppers sharing how excited they are for opening day.
One wrote: "This is wonderful news! Good luck to the new Newark M&S team.
"I’m looking forward to my food shop already."
Another said: "Wonderful news. Opening at last."
The M&S unit is 18,000sq ft of the retail park, which in total will cover an estimated 50,000sq ft.
More than 230 parking spaces will be created at the retail park.
The Maltings Retail Park in North Gate Road, Newark, has been under construction since 2020 and is set to open this spring, with five new units.
In addition to the food hall, there will also be a Costa and Greggs opening on the retail park.
But local independent businesses in the town fear their footfall may be affected by the openings of Costa and Greggs.
M&S had left the Newark high street in April 2019 when it closed its store in Stodman Street as part of a national programme of closures.
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