It’s reported locally that work on the long-heralded £50 million “leisure hub” in Bournemouth town centre is finally set to begin early in 2014. The Nautilus development will contain a nine-screen cinema, 14 restaurants and 350 car parking spaces.
And the developers are said to have more applications to take up restaurant leases than there are restaurants planned for the site, with only the tenant for the ‘signature’ restaurant at the top of the spire remaining unknown.
The Nautilus
An exciting new leisure development in the heart of Bournemouth, The Nautilus will provide a brand new ‘destination’ of quality restaurants and retail outlets with sea views, a 9 screen, 2,000 seat cinema, new public gardens with roof top terrace, and 357 car parking spaces in a new three level car park below the scheme.
With detailed planning consent granted and anchor tenant ‘Odeon Cinemas Limited’ signed (February 2012), The Nautilus is the only cinema-led leisure scheme that will go ahead in Bournmouth for the foreseeable future.
The design of the new leisure complex by Piers Gough of CZWG Architects will provide a uniquely different architectural contribution to one of the Town’s principal tourism and leisure destinations, complimenting the ground-breaking design of the Bournemouth Pavilion next door.
The Nautilus sits in a prime location, close to Bournemouth’s commercial and retail centre, the beach, the Pavilion Theatre, the new South West Dance Centre and Pavilion Gardens. It will have underground parking and easy access to all the town centre attractions and transport hubs.