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King's Cross retail sales up 16 percent across broader estate

The London-based estate King’s Cross has announced a significant uplift in retail performance for 2025, reinforcing its position as a primary global shopping and dining destination. Total sales across the wider estate rose by 13.5 percent year-over-year (YoY), driven by a diversifying tenant mix and high-profile brand acquisitions. Coal Drops...

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The Drops market returns with new Graduate Fashion Foundation partnership

**The monthly Drops market runs May-September 2022 at Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross** **Partnership with Graduate Fashion Foundation sees five emerging fashion designers sell their wares to the public** King’s Cross has today announced the return of its hugely successful market concept, The Drops at Coal Drops Yard, this year with a new...

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Outdoor fashion market The Drops returns to King's Cross

The Drops, an outdoor fashion and lifestyle market that debuted at King’s Cross over the summer, returns for fall. From Friday October 1st to Sunday October 3rd the fashion market will also showcase a mix of lifestyle and homeware brands, including new additions One Essentials, a circular lifestyle brand reinventing underwear, Bryder, a...

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United We Shop: Retailers in London's King's Cross ask customers to shop in-store this Christmas

Retailers in London’s King’s Cross are asking shoppers for help this holiday season. In a campaign called United We Shop over 30 retail stores and brands are calling on Londoners to ‘shop out to help out’ this Christmas The brands have highlighted how December 2020 is going to be more important than ever for retailers as they look to capture two...

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In pictures: UK menswear brand Universal Works opens second London store

UK menswear brand Universal Works has opened its second London store, and this time it's slap bang in the middle of the long-awaited Coal Drops Yard development. Commenting on the opening of the new store in a statement, David Keyte, founder of Universal Works, said: “We champion skilled, small-scale production and produce garments in the right...

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Coal Drops Yard confirms opening date and adds new brands

Coal Drops Yard, the new Heatherwick Studio-designed retail and lifestyle district at London’s King’s Cross, has confirmed it will open to the public on October 26 and has announced a further four brands who will join the line-up. The new shopping district set within the historic buildings and arches directly adjacent to Granary Square and...

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Beija London and Emin & Paul open debut store at Coal Drops Yard in King’s Cross

Beija London is set to open its debut permanent store at Coal Drops Yard, as independent womenswear label Emin & Paul gears up to open its second UK store at the upcoming shopping hub at King’s Cross. Beija London is set to expand its online-only offering into physical retail following a series of successful pop-ups. The debut store will offer a...

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Cheaney, Form & Thread and Universal Works set to open at King's Cross

Three British fashion brands, Cheaney, Form & Thread, and Universal Works are set to open stores at Coal Drops Yard, the new shopping Quarter in King's Cross slated to open October 2018. All three labels join an impressive line-up of design-focused retailers, which includes to likes of Paul Smith, Lost Property of London and Cubitts. Footwear...

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Coal Drops Yard adds local fashion brands

Cubitts and Lost Property of London will both open new stores at Coal Drops Yard, the new shopping quarter in King’s Cross located next to Granary Square, which will house 100,000 square foot of shops and restaurants when it opens to the public in autumn 2018. The locally-founded brands are the among the first to be announced for the Heatherwick...

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18montrose launches concept store at King’s Cross

18montrose, the high end concept store for men and women have launched their third store in King’s Cross, London’s latest retail hotspot. The store, a wide open space of 5000 square feet has been designed to be easily manipulated into both a retail and an event space. By combining light, colour, rhythm, organisation and function - the store can...

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& Other Stories to open King's Cross store

Fashion retailer & Other Stories is the latest major retailer to announce a new location at King’s Cross as the area looks set to become one of London’s fashion hubs. The new 5,920 square foot store, the retailer’s fifth in London, will be located on King’s Boulevard and will open in autumn 2017. The store will sell a selection of accessories,...

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Carhartt WIP is the latest brand to join King’s Cross revamp

Carhartt Work In Progress (WIP), the European development of American workwear brand Carhartt, is the latest retailer to announce it’s move to King’s Cross. Set to open its new retail location in September, the brand will occupy a 2,500 square-foot store on King’s Boulevard. Designed by Faye Toogood, the store will feature a modular layout,...