Niketown quickly shuttered in mid-January, forward of a “grand reopening”. The closure got here lower than two weeks earlier than Microsoft introduced that it might be closing its Microsoft Expertise retailer from February, located diagonally throughout Oxford Circus from Niketown.
The Microsoft retailer was housed at 253-259 Regent Road, with Niketown at 236 Oxford Road.
Drapers understands Nike will open its short-term retailer within the coming months, with Niketown anticipated to reopen in two years.
The long-lasting flagship opened in 1999 and is the biggest Nike retailer on the earth, protecting 42,000 sq ft throughout 4 flooring. The shop final went below renovation in 2010.
On the time of Niketown’s short-term closure, Nike UK director of shops Charmain Mason stated: “As we quickly bid farewell to Niketown London, a sporting sanctuary of inspiration for the previous 25 years, I can’t assist however replicate on the numerous and extraordinary, occasions, achievements, sporting superstars, clients it has hosted or delivered to life.
“[Niketown] will return, extra magnificent, extra daring, and as inspiring as ever.”
Drapers has contacted Nike for remark.
