He is an urban designer by background and brought a fresh team with him. “I visited Poole as one of my first site visits when I joined L&G and I immediately walked around and just thought there is a massive amount of opportunity here, not only because of the variety of demographics of people in the area but there was a huge amount of space you could do some interesting stuff to,” he said. “Kingland was this quite tired street which attached itself to the Dolphin Centre,” he said. There was, as he points out “quite a bit of vacancy”. Argos had closed, Costa had moved to Falkland Square, and other sizeable units were standing empty.
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POOLE S latest shopping district, boasting ten hand-picked independent retailers , has opened to the public for the first time. The Kingland development, at Kingland Crescent adjoining the Dolphin Shopping Centre, has been billed as a boutique shopping experience and is part of ambitious plans to breath new life into Poole town centre. Backed by The Dolphin Shopping Centre landlords, Legal & General, the ten new outlets will not have to pay any rent or business rates for the first two years. And in time there are plans to hold a street market at Kingland with up to 20 independent vendors – and a programme of 300 local events.