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Bluewater Shopping Centre

Bluewater Shopping Centre
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Location Stone, Greenhithe, Kent, England
Opening date 16 March 1999
Developer Lend Lease
Management Lend Lease Retail
Owner Prudential plc (35%),
Land Securities (30%),
The Lend Lease Retail Partnership (25%), and
Hermes (10%)
Architect Eric Kuhne
No. of stores and services 330
No. of anchor tenants 3 (M&S, House of Fraser & John Lewis)
Total retail floor area 1,675,955 ft2 (155,700 m2)
No. of floors 2/3 in parts
Parking 13,000 cars, 50 coaches
Website http://www.bluewater.co.uk

Coordinates: 51°26′23″N 0°16′16″E / 51.439639°N 0.271239°E / 51.439639; 0.271239

Bluewater Shopping Centre (commonly referred to as Bluewater) is an out-of-town shopping centre in Stone (postally Greenhithe), Kent, England, outside the M25 Orbital motorway, 17.8 miles (28.6 km) east south-east of London's centre. Opened on 16 March 1999 in a former chalk quarry after three years of building, the site including car parks occupies 240 acres (97 ha) and has a sales floor area of 154,000 m2 (1,600,000 ft2) over two levels, making it the fourth-largest shopping centre in the UK (after the MetroCentre, Trafford Centre and Westfield Stratford City). Elsewhere in Europe only Istanbul's Cevahir Mall and Vienna's (Vösendorf) Shopping City Süd are bigger. The floor plan is a triangular shape with 330 stores, including 3 anchors, 40 cafés and restaurants, and a 13-screen cinema. The centre employs 7,000 people and serves over 27 million visitors a year. A main rival is the Lakeside Shopping Centre and its two retail parks by road 8 miles (13 km) away in West Thurrock, Essex, just across the River Thames or 3.2 miles (5.1 km) point-to-point.


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