What rival shopping mall to Bluewater was constructed on the site of a former chalk quarry?
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Bluewater (shopping centre) 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 mi east south-east of London's centre. Opened on 16 March 1999 in a former chalk quarry after ten years of building works, the site including car parks occupies 240 acres and has a sales floor area of 154,000 m (1,600,000 ft) over three 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 mi away in West Thurrock, Essex, just across the River Thames or 3.2 mi point-to-point.
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Lakeside Shopping Centre Lakeside Shopping Centre, branded as Intu Lakeside, is a large out-of-town shopping centre located in West Thurrock, in the borough of Thurrock, Essex just beyond the eastern boundary of Greater London. It was constructed on the site of a former chalk quarry. The first tenants moved into the complex in 1988 and it was completed in 1990, being opened on 25 October of that year by Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Marcus Bradford and Angus Ogilvy.
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Blue Lagoon Water Park Blue Lagoon Water Park is an indoor waterpark near Canaston Bridge in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Blue Lagoon is located in the Bluestone National Park Resort. It was opened in summer 2008.
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Capitol Centre Capitol Centre (previously: Capitol Exchange Centre) is an indoor shopping centre in the city of Cardiff, Wales. Functioning as one of the city's retail malls, The building is built on the site of the former Capitol Theatre, and is situated at the eastern end of Queen Street near the Dumfries Place bus terminus and Cardiff Queen Street railway station.
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Indian River Mall Indian River Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Vero Beach, Florida. Opened in 1996, it is anchored by JCPenney, Macy's, Sears, and Dillard's.
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Coastal Grand Mall Coastal Grand Mall is a super-regional shopping mall in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States. The mall is the second largest in the state, with 1047732 sqft of retail space. The mall is one level, but the anchor stores have two except JCPenney.
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The Galleries, Bristol The Galleries (formerly The Mall Bristol but originally opened in 1991 as The Galleries Shopping Centre), is a shopping mall situated in the Broadmead shopping centre in Bristol city centre, England. Functioning as one of the city's retail malls, it is a three-storey building, which spans over Fairfax Street.
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Old Chicago Old Chicago was a combination shopping mall and indoor amusement park that existed in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Illinois, from 1975 until 1980. It was billed as "The world's first indoor amusement park", and it was intended to draw visitors all year round, rain or shine. It opened to great fanfare and over 15,000 visitors on June 17, 1975, with an enormous building that housed major rides, such as two roller coasters and a Ferris wheel, as well as a turn-of-the-century themed shopping mall. However, only six months after opening, the complex ran into financial troubles due to construction cost overruns. The opening of a competing amusement park in the same general region (known today as Six Flags Great America) hurt attendance, and the lack of large anchor stores failed to draw enough local and repeat shoppers. Despite management changes, the center continued to lose money. By 1978, the mall began closing on Mondays and Tuesdays and in early 1980 the entire amusement park shut down and the rides were sold, only five years after opening. Efforts to find alternative uses for the huge building failed, and the structure was demolished in the spring of 1986.
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The Peacocks (Woking) Woking Shopping is a multi-storey shopping and leisure centre in Woking, Surrey, England construction of which completed in 1992 providing approximately 90 consumer service/retail units; nine varieties of daytime restaurants, fast food shops and cafés and a link to the area's largest theatre and cinema with entrances outside and within the centre itself.
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North Shore Square North Shore Square is a 621192 sqft shopping mall in Slidell, Louisiana. The mall is the largest mall on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain, fifth largest in the New Orleans area and the 11th largest in Louisiana. The mall is home to two anchor stores, Dillard's, and At Home, as well as approximately 23 other stores. All the anchor stores are on one level. The mall did not flood during Hurricane Katrina and experienced no serious damage. The mall formerly had Mervyns as an anchor store, but closed shortly after the storm when Mervyn's pulled out of the Louisiana market. The store was eventually replaced by Burlington Coat Factory, which is now closed due to corporate downsizing. JCPenney closed on July 31, 2017. The mall has struggled partially due to increased internet-based sales as well as an open-air shopping center located on the opposite side of town, to which it lost some of its tenants. Following a nationwide trend, the mall's future is uncertain as many former mall-based stores have either closed completely or downsized nationally, and enclosed shopping malls across the country are challenged by new consumer trends and shifting paradigms.
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Orange Park Mall Orange Park Mall is a shopping mall located in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, an unincorporated suburban area just west of Orange Park, Florida, United States. It features Dillard's, JCPenney, Sears, Belk, Dick's Sporting Goods, and AMC Theatres as anchor stores.
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Dolphin Mall Dolphin Mall is a shopping mall in Sweetwater, Miami-Dade County, Florida, west of the city of Miami. There are over 240 retail outlets and name-brand discounters as anchors.
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Independence Center Independence Center is a 1,032,000 sqft super-regional shopping mall located in Independence, Missouri. The mall opened in 1974. Its three department stores were Macy's, Sears and Stix, Baer & Fuller's. The mall featured a unique three-level, 60 ft central atrium, with a series of ramps and stair risers traversing the expanse of open space. In the center of the atrium, on the lowest floor, was a food court. When it first opened and for many years afterward, the mall's advertising carried the memorable slogan "Independence Center: The "I" has it." Independence Center even featured an enormous flashing advertising marquee which stood along I-70. Independence Center was built by Homart, a division of Sears Roebuck & Co. It was later acquired, owned and managed by Chicago-based LaSalle. The mall saw its first cosmetic renovation in the mid-1980s. Stix Baer & Fuller was replaced by Dillard's in 1984. In 1985, after Dillard's acquired Macy's midwest stores, it sold the Independence Center location to Mercantile Stores, then the parent company of The Jones Store Co. In 1994, Independence Center was purchased by Simon Property Group. In 1996, the mall added a two-story carousel in the atrium; and in 1998, the mall underwent a massive $20 million renovation, which improved the property's aesthetics and vertical transportation, and also improved the food court. Also in 1998, a large children's play area was added. In 2004, Independence Center saw another renovation, which added small shop space on the outside of the mall facing 39th Street. In 2006 Macy's returned to its original location in the mall after the Federated-May department stores merger, which resulted in all Kansas City area Jones Store locations being converted to Macy's stores.
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West Park Mall West Park Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Opened in 1981, it is anchored by Macy's (91,175 sq. ft.), JCPenney (100,466 sq. ft.), Furniture Factory (80,710 sq. ft.), Old Navy, and Barnes & Noble.
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Westfield Warringah Mall Westfield Warringah Mall (previously known as Warringah Mall) is a large indoor/outdoor shopping centre in the suburb of Brookvale in the Northern Beaches region of Sydney.
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Westfield Whitford City Westfield Whitford City is a major shopping center owned by the Westfield Group, which is located west of St. Mark's Anglican Community School in Hillarys, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The center was built on the former Red Cattle Ridge site, located approximately 18 km north west of the Perth CBD on Marion Avenue. In 2006, the shopping center had an annual turnover of $395.4 million and approximately 7.2 million customer visits. The trade-area population surrounding the shopping location is about 224,410 and the total retail spending in trade area is $2.3 billion.
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RP Mall, Kollam The RP Mall is just a commercial building in Kollam, Kerala, Owned by one of the business tycoons in India, Dr. B. Ravi Pillai's RP Group. RP building was formerly known as "K-Mall (Kollam Mall)" and later that changed to a commercial building because of un occupancy of retail outlets .it was a commercial venture from Malabar Developers and first of its kind in kollam town . Kollam was the first town in Kerala calling a commercial building as a mall (after Kochi and Kozhikode) to adopt fake mall culture. The 210,000 sq.ft building is located on Kollam's high street.
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Suburban Square Suburban Square is a shopping center located in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, United States, in the Philadelphia area. The center opened in 1928, and is notable as one of the earliest shopping centers in the United States. It has also been generally credited as being the first such shopping center to include a true department store, when Strawbridge & Clothier opened in May 1930. The complex currently includes Suburban Square, Times Building, and the adjacent Ardmore Farmers Market and features more than sixty retail and dining establishments.
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Westfield Chatswood Westfield Chatswood is a large indoor shopping centre in the suburb of Chatswood in the lower North Shore of Sydney.
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Fognam Chalk Quarry Fognam Chalk Quarry is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) to the west of Upper Lambourn in Berkshire. It is located within the North Wessex Downs.
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Sawgrass Mills Sawgrass Mills is an outlet shopping mall operated by the Simon Property Group, in Sunrise, Florida, a city in Broward County. With 2383906 sqft of retail selling space, it is the tenth largest mall in the United States, the largest single story and outlet mall in the U.S., the largest shopping mall in Broward County, the second largest mall in Florida and Miami Metropolitan Area, and the third largest shopping mall in the southeastern United States. The mall opened in 1990 as the third mall developed by the now-defunct Mills Corporation (now part of Simon Property Group), and has been expanded four times since then, most recently in 2013. There are over 300 retail outlets and name brand discounters, with anchors including Off 5th Saks Fifth Avenue, and Super Target.
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Westfield Countryside Westfield Countryside (formerly Countryside Mall) is a shopping mall in Clearwater, Florida. Situated near the coastline on the Gulf Coast, it serves over 9 million customers every year. Its current anchor stores are Dillard's, JCPenney, Macy's, Nordstrom Rack, Sears, and Whole Foods Market. The mall also features a 12-screen Cobb theater, numerous restaurants, and a full-size ice skating rink.