Aldi on its way to Telford Shopping Centre

Top discount supermarket Aldi is coming to Telford as part of the £15 million redevelopment of the Northern Quarter, formerly the Asda supermarket at the shopping centre.

Aldi will open for Christmas 2018.

This is the third major retailer to have signed at the centre in the space of a week.

Aldi has taken a 20-year lease on a 19,500 sq ft anchor store in the new Northern Quarter, which will take up a total of 70,000 sq ft, in units ranging from 7,000 sq ft to 25,000 sq ft.

The site is next to the 800-space Red Oak car park and the redevelopment will include major landscaping changes and a new entrance into the Border Mall. .

The Northern Quarter is one of three major development schemes currently underway at Telford Shopping Centre.

It also includes the development of a new Fashion Quarter where Next and New Look both committed to large, new stores last week.

he Fashion Quarter will see the redevelopment and extension of New Row and New Street, keeping House of Fraser and existing tenants Zara and River Island.

A new link to Sherwood Street will create new large stores.

This project also includes the new bus station, where work is already well underway.

At the same time, the first new restaurants – including the first TGI Friday in Shropshire - will open in time for Easter 2017 in the newly built Southern Quarter adjacent to The Telford Centre and the town centre’s Southwater leisure area.

Alexandra Pugh, senior leasing & asset manager at Sovereign Centros, which is managing the redevelopment of the centre, said: “We are delighted to announce Aldi as the latest new signing at The Telford Centre.

"Our customers highlighted the need for a new food store and we are delighted to have secured one of the UK’s fastest growing supermarket chains to enhance the tenant mix at the centre.

"We are already in detailed discussions with a host of other retailers, many new to the town, interested in taking space in the remaining Northern Quarter units and will be making further announcements in due course.

“Our continued investment in Telford Shopping Centre, including the new Fashion and Southern Quarter developments, is reaffirming Telford’s status as one of the region’s most dominant retail and leisure locations.”