Monument Mall is a shopping centre in central

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. Formerly owned by St Martins Property Group, it was acquired by the retail property company

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for £28m in March 2011. The Mall opened in 1990 adjacent to the Monument station on the

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. It is also directly in front of

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and Grey Street, and has an entrance on

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Refurbishment

In December 2011, planning permission was granted to reconfigure the shopping mall to provide an additional 14,000 ft² of retail floor space, infill the atrium and walkways at all levels, and create eight well-configured ground floor unit shops with flexible floor plates and with basement trading potential. The refurbishment cost £15 million. Since the refurbishment, all stores that were originally located in Monument Mall have closed, except for TK Maxx (which opened a new flagship store in November 2012) and the entrance to Fenwick (which was reopened in December 2013). The refurbishment has attracted high-end brands to open stores here: *

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opened a 450m² store. *

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opened a 420m² store. *

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opened a 490m² store. * Reiss opened a 334m² flagship store. *

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* Rox Jewellery and watches, a Scottish brand, opened their first store in England, a 286m², two-floor store *

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opened a 453m², two-floor flagship. * A Jamie's Italian restaurant, a brand owned by chef

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. * The Botanist subsidiary to The New World Trading Company *

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