Westfield London
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| Location |
London, W12 United Kingdom |
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| Opening date | 30 October 2008 |
| Developer | Westfield Group |
| Management | Westfield Corporation |
| Owner | Westfield Corporation |
| Architect | Jason Forbes |
| No. of stores and services | 372 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 150,000m² (1,614,600 ft²) |
| No. of floors | 5 |
| Parking | 4,500 |
| Public transit access |
 Shepherd's Bush; Shepherd's Bush Market  Shepherd's Bush
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| Website | westfield.com/london |
Westfield London is a shopping centre in White City, London, United Kingdom, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The centre was developed by the Westfield Group at a cost of £1.6bn, on a site bounded by the West Cross Route (A3220), the Westway (A40) and Wood Lane (A219). It opened on 30 October 2008 and became the largest covered shopping development in the capital, dethroning the Whitgift Centre in Croydon.
The site is part of the White City district, where several other large scale development projects are under way or in the planning stages. The development is on a large brownfield site, part of which was once the location of the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition; the initial site clearance demolished the set of halls still remaining from the exhibition (their cheap-to-build, white-painted blank facades are said to be the origin of the name "White City"). Much of the site was in use as a railway depot excavated to a lower level and built over.
The centre is noted for its size: it has a retail floor area of 150,000 m² (1.615m ft²), the equivalent of about 30 football pitches. At the time of its opening it was reported to be the second largest commercial centre in the UK (after MetroCentre near Newcastle).
The nearest London Underground stations are Wood Lane, White City, Shepherd's Bush and Shepherd's Bush Market.
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