Pentagon Shopping Centre
Total retail floor area 329,880 sq ft (30,647 m2) | | |
No. of floors | 2 | |
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Website | www |
The Pentagon Shopping Centre (known locally as 'The Pentagon') is a shopping centre in
Stores
As of April 2024, big and small businesses located in the Pentagon include:
- Adecco
- BB's Coffee & Muffins
- Boots
- British Heart Foundation
- Card Factory
- CeX
- Chatham Bowl
- Chinese Herbal Centre
- Coffee Republic (also present in the High Street)
- D&A Toys
- DEICHMANN
- EE
- Etiquette Dry Cleaning
- Foot Locker
- Game
- Greggs
- JD Sports
- Jesse's Cafe
- Kwik Film
- Latino's
- Lids
- Life Is Sweet
- Mobility Hub
- Muffin Break
- New Look
- Noodle Stop (present in the High Street)
- Nucleus HeART
- 02
- Pandora
- Poundland
- Ramsdens
- Robinson Michael & Jackson (also present in the High Street)
- Safia's Barber
- Sainsburys
- Select
- Simply Vape
- Subway
- Supercuts
- Superdrug
- The Entertainer
- The Fragrance Shop
- The Works
- Three Store
- Timpson
- Vodafone
- Warhammer (present in the High Street)
- Warren James
The long-established WHSmith store closed on 15 April 2015 following expiry of their unit's lease.[2] The DEICHMANN shop now occupies the former unit. The centre also features a taxi rank and public toilets (these formerly charged a fee for entry of 20p).
Information
The shopping centre is spread over two floors, with lifts and two escalators located in the Pentagon Court connecting the two floors. New Look also has a two-level unit, accessible from the ground floor. The former WH Smith unit used to occupy two floors, but downsized to ground-floor only in the mid-2000s. Boots also downsized its store over the years, with part of its store now used as an NHS surgery.
History
The Pentagon was built in the early 1970s, over the demolished George Street, Nelson Road, Fair Row, Solomons Road and Avondale Terrace. The book printer Mackays of Chatham had premises between the High Street, and the Brook car park. The entrance to their facility was in Fair Row. The Factory was made up of a new build and a nineteenth century candle factory. Mackays eventually relocated to Lordswood, South of Chatham, where they still are.
Past tenants and features
Major retailers that have had units in The Pentagon in the past include
Future
Owing to the various alterations going ahead in Chatham town centre and to the new bus interchange facility in Globe Lane, the Pentagon is planned to be re-developed as well. The space taken up by the former bus station is planned to be taken up by expanded retail capacity and residential apartments. A large food store, major space units and more leisure facilities are also part of the plans.[4] As of 2018, the plans have yet to be financed, or put into motion.
The Pentagon (and the rest of Chatham town centre) have suffered from external factors, such as the construction of
References
- ^ "Pentagon Shopping Centre - Directions". Pentagon Shopping Centre. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
- ^ "WHSmith in Chatham closes earlier than expected". www.kentonline.co.uk. KentOnline. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ^ "Chatham Dockyard - your memories". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC. 26 July 2005. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
- ^ "Ellandi ¦ Delivering Change, Creating Future Places".
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2011. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
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