New images have been released showing how a new Aldi store will look when it opens for business within months on Tyneside.
Gateshead construction company Tolent has secured the £2.1m deal to build a new Aldi supermarket at Kingston Park in Newcastle, which is now taking shape. The project is split into three phases and is due to be finished by end of this year.
Tolent is building the new discount retail store for The Hanro Group, having been enlisted to design and build a new 14,000sqft store at the retail park, where the structural steel frame is now taking shape. The company is also constructing a new delivery yard as well as reconfiguring and adding to existing parking bays. The whole project which also see the addition of new public realm area, and improved pedestrian crossing routes.
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It has also involved the demolition of buildings which housed businesses, including Peacock and Poundstretcher stores and Luciano’s Italian Restaurant, some of which had been vacant for some time after being impacted by the economic downturn caused by the pandemic.
Steve Church, regional manager of Tolent, said: “We are very happy to be once again working on a project that shapes Newcastle and facilitates the people of the region. This project is being designed in a way that makes the new store well connected and accessible to different modes of transport.
"It is our fifth Aldi project, however, this is the first time we are working with The Hanro Group and we are excited to be entering into a new association with them.”
Laura Lloyd, head of portfolio at Hanro, said: “We are delighted to be working with Tolent to deliver a new Aldi store for the area. Tolent are a very well-respected local construction company making them the ideal contractor to undertake this prominent development.”
A council report from last year said that the new Aldi would be “well-connected and accessible by sustainable modes of transport” and “designed to promote community cohesion, wellbeing and to reflect and enhance the area’s character and natural environment”.
Once it is finished the development will complement existing businesses on the western side of Kingston Retail Park, which will be at full occupancy with other retailers including M&S, Greggs, Specsavers, Superdrug, Next and Boots.
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