Welcome to our microsite on the construction of the arc development in Bury St Edmunds

Centros, in partnership with St Edmundsbury Borough Council, is developing a vibrant new quarter that will extend the existing town centre of Bury St Edmunds and provide more shops, cafés and restaurants, places to live, new public spaces and a great public venue. Arranged around two new open shopping streets and a public square, the development includes:

• A Debenhams department store and around 35 new shops, cafés and restaurants
• 62 apartments above the shops
• 850 shoppers’ parking spaces (with 200 underground)
• A new public square and other public open space
• A multi-purpose public venue building

Once the arc development is completed in February 2009, we will move on to redevelop Market Thoroughfare to form a much wider pedestrian link between the new quarter and Cornhill in the historic town centre. This building will incorporate a further five new shops with eight apartments on the upper levels.