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Article: Regent Street Revival
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 28, 2008
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This once dowdy stretch between Oxford Circus and Piccadilly has
reinvented itself as a magnet for the capital's fashion conscious in
search of affordable style
Regent Street is a funny old stretch. Luxury brands squat next to
tatty tartan shops, and buses are nose to tail, lending the area a
dank, claustrophobic air.
But thanks to a [pounds]500 million investment by the Crown
estate, which owns this mile-and-a-quarter of prime retail frontage,
Regent Street has upped its ante. It has ditched the banks, jumper
shops and airline HQs that once made it so dowdy and attracted an
altogether glitzier clientele. Regent Street now plays host to that
burgeoning slice of retail known affectionately as ...