Bluewater - Retail shopping
- Created by: L. P.
- Created on: 29-05-13 16:49
View mindmap
- Bluewater, Dartford in Kent
- Opened 1999
- 3rd biggest purpose built retail centre in UK
- 330 shops
- Employs 7000 people
- £400 million cost
- Built on a quarry to improve the landscape
- 50 acres of parkland and 7 lakes
- Transport
- 13,000 free parking spaces
- Close to M25
- 600 Buses Daily
- Frequent train service from central London
- Leisure Facilities
- Boating Lake
- Woodland
- Cycle track
- Golf course
- Fishing Lake
- Indoor facilities
- 13 screen cinema
- 50 food outlets
- Success
- Won countless awards
- Won awards for highly successful sustainable ethos
- Effects
- Local CBD lost 20% of income
- Lost workers
- Effects
- Local CBD lost 20% of income
- Lost workers
Comments
No comments have yet been made