Penneys set to replace Roches as shopping centre anchor tenant

PENNEYS is expected to be announced within the next few days as the new anchor tenant of a Cork shopping centre as 172 staff of the old tenant, Roches Stores, are due to collect their redundancies.

Industry sources have confirmed the new anchor tenant will take a large section of the 45,000 square foot site at Wilton Shopping Centre vacated by Roches at the start of September.

The unit has been at the centre of controversy for the last three weeks after 172 Roches Stores staff lost their jobs because Marks and Spencer and the owner of the centre, Joe O’Donovan, could not agree a rental price.