Property News - Three more tie knot at Gretna Gateway

LK Bennett, Franchetti Bond and Julian Graves are to move into the Gretna Gateway Outlet Village factory outlet centre at the Scottish border this summer.

Designer footwear brand LK Bennett is taking 2,720 sq ft (255 sq m) on a seven-year lease for its second outlet mall unit after Bicester Village.

Leather goods specialist Franchetti Bond - which already has shops in London and Guildford, Surrey - has agreed terms on 800 sq ft (75 sq m) on a five-year lease.

Construction of a further 48,000 sq ft (4,460 sq m) of retail space at Gretna is scheduled to start in August, with an anticipated opening date in summer 2004.