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Friars Square is a shopping centre located in the town centre of Aylesbury. The landlord is the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), and managed by Grosvenor Fund Management. The shopping centre is a mixed use development, incorporating elements of a previous shopping centre development of the same name. Friars Square includes over 60 shops and restaurants, offices, 400-space multi-storey car park and bus station. The Cloisters indoor market was closed in 2012. The centre is anchored by House of Fraser. ==History== The original Friars Square (or Friar's Square) was created in the 1960s as the Aylesbury Town Centre Redevelopment. It transformed the south-west part of the town centre including the Market Square and Silver Street areas. Opened in 1967, it included a number of shops in an open-air pedestrian only area, and included a new location for the town's market.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/archives/maps/shopping.page )〕 The Cadena cafe, which later became a Wimpey, was housed in a modern architectural pavilion over the open market. The current shopping centre was formally opened in 1993 at a cost of 70m, following the closure and extension of the previous town centre development of the same name. The redevelopment was designed by Stanley Bragg Architects.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stanleybragg.co.uk/projects/20?page=2 )〕 The large Woolworth building was integrated into the development, to house the new anchor store (now House of Fraser) and the library. In 2007 the centre was sold by F&C Property Asset Management to Multiplex UK. In 2011, ownership passed to Royal Bank of Scotland's West Register asset division, as the newly merged Brookfield Multiplex subsequently moved out of the UK retail market following its acquisition of Multiplex. RBS had previously provided the debt for Multiplex to buy Friars Square for 89.5 million. In 2012, the vacant office building was proposed to be converted into 50 apartments. In January 2013, a branch of clothing chain H&M opened in Friars Square,〔http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/more-news/it-s-all-the-fashion-shoppers-flock-to-h-m-opening-in-aylesbury-1-4741588〕 on the site of the old HMV store which was closed on February 11, 2012.〔http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/more-news/hmv-closure-in-aylesbury-signals-end-of-an-era-for-the-humble-compact-disc-1-3457925〕 In September 2013, a branch of rival clothing chain Topshop opened in Friars Square, in a newly constructed part in the middle of the main shopping mall.〔http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/more-news/aylesbury-topshop-will-now-open-in-september-1-5253789〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Friars Square」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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