Plans have been approved for Food Warehouse to replace Carpetright at the Menai Retail Park, on Caernarfon Road in Bangor.
Menai Retail Park currently comprises four retail units occupied by Currys/PC World, Carpetright, TK MAXX and Pets at Home.
Carpetright have served notice to vacate the unit and will be replaced by Food Warehouse – part of the Iceland group – with a £1m investment and creating 20-25 new jobs.
The Deeside-based company has already opened Food Warehouse outlets in Wrexham, Mold and Flint as part of a 144 strong UK portfolio.
According to the company, Food Warehouse differs from Iceland’s traditional town centre stores as they are usually located on retail parks and often twice their size, offering a wider range of goods including a much larger range of frozen, chilled and grocery products along with a selection of premium lines.
The supporting documents said: “The proposals are to increase the internal floor area of the building to accommodate a larger variety of retail uses, in this instance food retail, which requires a footprint of 12,000sqft to function.
“As such our solution is to extend the building at the front only which will prevent impact on the delivery yard area and will provide an opportunity to improve the main building facade.”
It added: “Iceland and Food Warehouse is a Welsh company. It is based in Deeside, Flintshire and there are presently 13 Food Warehouse stores in Wales.
“In north Wales the nearest Food Warehouses to Bangor are located at Wrexham Mold and Flint. Food Warehouse stores in Wales have bi-lingual signage.
“The investment by Food Warehouse in opening at Store at Menai Retail Park would be in excess of £1 million. This does not include the costs of construction.
“Food Warehouse would create 20 to 25 new jobs across a range of roles. Food Warehouse expect the majority of posts, if not all, to be filled by local people.
“Jobs would also be created during the construction of the works proposed.”
