A planning application has been submitted to partially level the Regent Circus Development in Swindon's town centre.
MCR Property Group, which describes itself on its website - www.mcrproperty.com - as 'Creating Enduring Value for Everyone since 1989,' and has offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow, submitted the bid to Swindon Borough Council.
It proposes to begin work as early as next month.
The summary says: "This application proposes partial demolition of the Regent Circus Complex in Swindon.
"The complex will be demolished bar the commercial unit currently containing Nandos alongside the segment of the complex providing step free access to this unit and the associated public realm (privately owned).
"All other structures associated with the site are to be demolished."
The move, if it gets the green light, will partially bring to an end the latest chapter in the troubled recent history of the site.
The opening of the Regent Circus Development in 2014 was widely welcomed, as it replaced the Swindon College building which had been disused for some years and gradually become derelict and a magnet for vandals.
In its early days, the new development was home to a variety of restaurants as well as a substantial Morrisons supermarket and a flagship state-of-the-art Cineworld cinema.
The supermarket closed some six years ago and has stood empty ever since, while the cinema closed last year.
The number of other businesses in the main part of the building gradually dwindled. The last, Boom Battle Bar, departed earlier this year, initially blaming what it described as a problem with the power supply.
From that point, the only remaining occupant of a unit in the main part of the development was the Pride Hub, which has since moved to the Brunel Shopping Centre.
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