Up to 400 jobs will be created when the store opens in 2018
WORK has officially begun on a new £40m Trago Mills megastore in Merthyr Tydfil.
Construction work at the site in Merthyr Tydfil got under way on Friday after an official turf-cutting ceremony was completed.
Trago Mills’ megastore in the Valleys, due to open in spring 2018, will be the firm’s first outside Cornwall and Devon. The company first acquired the site in the 1990s.
The 30,250 square metre store, which will be next to Cyfarthfa Retail Park, is hoped to be a major economic boost for the area, with around 400 jobs being created in retail, leisure and warehousing when the store opens.
Trago Mills around 180,000 ucts across 38 ments including ture, gardening, has proddepartfurnisports, toys, fishing, kitchens, bathrooms, carpets, DIY, tools, motoring, electrical, clothing and footwear.
The new store at Swansea Road – which will be a mile in perimeter – will also include a café, garden centre, bandstand and adventure dome, while there are plans to develop the site further with a petrol station and leisure facilities.
Trago Mills owner and chairman Bruce Robertson acknowledged the work was later than anticipated after the firm first acquired the former Butterley Brickworks site in the mid-1990s.
Trago was founded in the mid-1960s in Cornwall by Mike Robertson –