Bluewater (shopping mall)
The Bluewater Shopping Center (just as Bluewater known) is a shopping mall in Greenhithe (county Kent ) in the southeast of England . It is outside on the M25 ring road around London and 28.6 km southeast of central London . The complex was built within three years in a former limestone quarry based on a design by architect Eric Kuhne and opened on March 16, 1999. The site, including the parking spaces, covers an area of 97 hectares and the sales area is 154,000 m² on two levels. This makes Bluewater the fourth largest shopping center in the United Kingdom (after the MetroCentre near Newcastle , Trafford Center near Manchester and Westfield Stratford City in Stratford (London) ). In Europe, only the Cevahir Shopping Mall in Istanbul and the Shopping City Süd near Vienna are larger.
In Bluewater there are 330 shops including the three anchor tenants House of Fraser , John Lewis and Marks & Spencer , 40 cafés and restaurants and a cinema with 13 halls. It has around 7,000 employees and over 28 million visitors per year. 13,000 free parking spaces are available.
The owners are Prudential plc (35%), Land Securities (30%), Lend Lease Retail Partnership (25%) and Hermes Investment Management (10%).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e The Bluewater Story. (No longer available online.) In: www.bluewater.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on November 29, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Official website (English)