Music retailer Marbecks is to open a new concept store in Dunedin's Wall Street shopping mall, it has been confirmed.
Marbecks will take three of the six remaining vacant retail spaces inside Wall Street, to use in a "prototype" development combining music, a bookstore and coffee shop, mall manager Regan Bennett confirmed yesterday.
The store is expected to open later this month, alongside Greenhouse, which is opening a florist store in the mall, he said.
As part of the move, The CD and DVD Store - which owned Marbecks - would close its existing Dunedin store, downstairs in the Meridian, Mr Bennett said.
The announcements would bring the number of occupied retail spaces within the mall to 13, leaving three to be tenanted.
Marbecks managing director Roger Harper declined to comment yesterday, saying more details would be available next week.
Five retailers - some of them relocating from elsewhere in Dunedin - were also opening stores in the redeveloped Golden Centre, manager Simon Eddy confirmed.
They were retailers Pascoes, Acquisitions, T&T, Venturi and Paper Plus.
T&T and Pascoes were already trading, while the remaining stores were to complete fitting out by Friday, when the centre's redevelopment would be unveiled in an opening ceremony, he said.
