Regent Court update

Leamington's brand new street -- Livery street, leading East from the Parade, between the Town Hall and the Regent Hotel -- is meant to open by the end of September.

Businesses we expect to see as part of the development include:

• Starbucks (coffee -- nicer coffees are available in Leamington)
• Extreme (sportswear, I think)
• Jaeger (fancy clothes)
• Austin Reed (more fancy clothes)
• Wagamama (yummy noodles)
• Hallmark (cards and gifts)
• Expression (cards and gifts) -- may be one and the same as Hallmark
• Prezzo (chain Italian restaurant)
• "a tex-mex restaurant" -- at Leamington Changelog we're hoping for a Santa Fe because they do good cocktails
• The Professional Cookware Company
• Shoon (clothes and shoes)
• Saks (hair and beauty)
• Blooming Marvellous (maternity wear -- go on, admit it, you thought it would be a florist)
• Venture (portrait photography)
• Metro (don't know -- many possibilities)
  

In addition, the people behind Ask will be running The Leamington Grill, "an upmarket bar and grill", in the former ballroom of the Regent Hotel.