There's an Action Bikes franchise in the Milton Keynes Xscape retail-entertainment complex. It does rather well. Northern IBDs interested in opening a new store in a location with guaranteed customer traffic may want to check out the new Xscape being built at Castleford...

Xscape expands

RetailWeek reports that 27 percent of the floorspace at the Castleford (M62) location is pre-let. A further 41 percent is about to be snapped up.

Construction doesn’t begin until 2002.

There’s another Xscape planned for Braehead in Glasgow.

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