Essential, Everyday Destinations Spotlight: The Gyle, Edinburgh

As one of our long-standing shoppers puts it: “There’s everything you would need, I love it here.”

It's been a fantastic year of progress at The Gyle, with 70,000 sq ft of leasing activity across 13 transactions, introducing attractive new national brands, delivering long-term renewals with key operators and facilitating major upgrades for our anchor supermarket Marks and Spencer alongside centre enhancements and a significant brand refresh on the horizon, the Gyle team have been very busy since NewRiver REIT acquired The Gyle in December 2024.

🛍️ New brands: Nando's UK & IRE, The Entertainer, Grape Tree and Lovisa
🔜 Autumn openings: Sostrene Grene, Rituals UK & Ireland (B Corp™) and Black Sheep Coffee
🤝 Long-term renewals: Boots UK, EE, New Look and Starbucks
✨ Major anchor refurbishment: Marks and Spencer upgraded its store, upsized its beauty section by 3x, introduced 30 new brands and delivered excellent sales momentum

All of this translates into performance, with an enhanced customer offer, new jobs, increased frequency, extended dwell time and sales uplifts:

💳 +3.5% customer spend increase
📊 91% catchment-to-shopper conversion
👣 +4.5% footfall increase to December 2025, tracking towards a further +5% for 2026

🎥 Hear for yourself from Sophie Shannon, Euan Roger, Centre Manager Caroline M., Marks and Spencers Jenny McPartland, as well also some of our local shoppers, across all ages, who have been coming here for years, as they share their perspectives why The Gyle plays such an important, essential role to Edinburgh.