City-Arkaden Wuppertal

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City-Arkaden Wuppertal
City-Arkaden Wuppertal
The view from the Sparkasse skyscraper to the City-Arkaden
Basic data
Location: Alte Freiheit 9, 42103 Wuppertal
Opening: October 10, 2001
Total area: 25,700 m²
Sales area : 20,000 m²
Shops: 80
Visitors: 33,160 daily
Operator: ECE project management
Website: www.city-arkaden-wuppertal.de
Transport links
Railway stations: Wuppertal main station ,  Döppersberg suspension railway station
Stops: Morianstrasse, Central Station
Omnibus : CE 62, CE 65, 603, 607, 613, 620, 625, 628, 635, 643, 645, 647, SB
Motorways : B 7
Other: L 417, Morianstrasse
Parking spaces : 650
Bicycle parking spaces : 5
Technical specifications
Construction time : 1999-2001
Architects : format3 GmbH

The City-Arkaden Wuppertal are a shopping center in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal . After the Allee-Center in Remscheid , the Hofgarten in Solingen and the Wicküler City in the Barmen district , the shopping gallery is the fourth largest shopping center in the Bergisches Land . It is operated by the Hamburg-based ECE group .

description

There are a total of around 80 specialist shops, cafés and restaurants with 25,000 square meters of retail space on four levels, of which 5,000 square meters are for services and restaurants. A total of 650 chargeable parking spaces are available on four floors, as well as 4,000 more in the immediate vicinity. What is special is that three levels of the City-Arkaden were built as a bridge over the four-lane Morianstrasse .

The 80 shops include an akzenta grocery store, a Camp David fashion store, a dm drugstore , a Douglas perfumery, a multi-storey H&M clothing store and a Thalia bookstore . The most strongly represented sectors are the textile trade (34%), food trade (21%) and hard goods (16%).

This is a conception of a downtown shopping center. It was argued that the inner city area also benefited from the shopping center's customer frequency. In addition, the arcades are located in a calculated catchment area of ​​around 780,000 inhabitants. Today almost 35,000 people visit the City-Arkaden every day. About 800 employees work in the shopping center.

A similar building can also be found in Klagenfurt , Austria . One difference, however, is that the Klagenfurt Arcades are integrated into an existing building complex and therefore have a historically maintained facade, while the Wuppertal counterpart was largely rebuilt. In addition, the selection of shops and restaurants differ.

history

The foundation stone was laid on March 21, 2000, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on April 4, 2001. The City-Arkaden located on the Alte Freiheit was opened on October 10, 2001 and was henceforth the largest shopping center in the city in front of the nearby Rathaus-Galerie , which opened in 1994, and Wicküler City, which was converted into a retail and specialist market center in 1996 . In the meantime, due to additions, the Wicküler City is again the largest shopping center in Wuppertal.

In February 2012 it became known that the ECE management was planning to expand the sales area of ​​the center. At the beginning of 2013, plans were published that provide for an expansion of around 16,000 to 20,000 m² and affect a large part of the block with the former post office building and the parking lot in front of it. As listed buildings such as the Old Lutheran Church on Kolk and the Rex Theater are affected by the expansion, the project came under fire in January 2013. The initiative “Die Wuppertal” was born. The local church community and two political parties also resisted the project. The idea has not been pursued since mid-2014.

  • The two-day overpass over Morianstrasse at night

  • View of the main entrance from Calvinstrasse

  • The second floor of the City-Arkaden

Web links

Commons : City-Arkaden  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c City-Arkaden Wuppertal ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on the homepage of the ECE project management @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ece.de
  2. ^ Supplement to the Wuppertaler Rundschau from October 19, 2011
  3. ↑ City-Arkaden: Stadtebau-Büro is to accompany the procedure from February 8, 2013, accessed on February 11, 2013
  4. ↑ City-Arkaden: Is an expansion compatible? wz-newsline.de from January 30, 2013, accessed on February 2, 2013
  5. ↑ The Wuppertal blog of the “Die Wuppertaler” initiative, accessed on February 2, 2013
  6. ^ City arcade expansion is off the table , in: Westdeutsche Zeitung , May 10, 2014

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 26.1 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 58.6 ″  E