Costa Coffee is pulling out of a Kent shopping centre this week, it has been confirmed.<\/p>\n
The chain currently occupies a prime spot in Ashford\u2019s County Square, but will shut its branch on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Costa Coffee’s County Square branch in 2018; the site will close on Thursday<\/p>\n
Those in charge of the centre say they hope the space \u201cwon\u2019t be empty for long\u201d as discussions with a new tenant are ongoing.<\/p>\n
But in a statement released today, County Square chiefs confirmed Costa has not renewed its lease for the space, which forms part of the centre\u2019s main square.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are sad to advise Costa will be departing, with their last trading day advised as Thursday,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter many years of trading at County Square, we are sorry to see them go and would like to wish Costa and their staff much success for their future.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we may be saying goodbye, we are pleased to advise lease discussions are already progressing with another exciting operator who is keen to take occupation in the main square as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
Costa Coffee is pulling out of the main square at County Square shopping centre<\/p>\n
\u201cAll being well, the space won\u2019t be empty for long.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe look forward to sharing more information as plans develop.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following the announcement, residents voiced their disappointment.<\/p>\n
Commenting online, Melissa Andrews said: \u201cSo much for people saying if you don’t use it you will lose it. People were always here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carl Holness added: \u201cIt\u2019s a real shame Costa is going – I often visit when I\u2019m out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a real shame Costa is going\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the closure, Costa Coffee will still operate eight branches in Ashford.<\/p>\n
Three standalone sites are found at Ashford Designer Outlet, Ashford Retail Park in Sevington, and at Drovers Retail Park following its opening in November.<\/p>\n
Costa cafes also trade from Tesco Crooksfoot, Tesco Park Farm, William Harvey Hospital and Ashford International station.<\/p>\n
It also opened a new shop within Sainsbury\u2019s Bybrook in December, taking over the supermarket\u2019s closed cafe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Costa Coffee is pulling out of a Kent shopping centre this week, it has been confirmed. The chain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3859,84,1319,59,192,191,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-642019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ashford","tag-business","tag-consumer","tag-gb","tag-human-interest","tag-kent","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}