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Southside Wandsworth is a shopping centre in Wandsworth Town, Wandsworth, London, England. When it was built it was the largest indoor shopping centre in Europe and is currently the fifth largest indoor shopping centre in the capital after Westfield Stratford, Westfield London, the Whitgift Centre and Brent Cross. ==Overview== Southside opened in 1971 as the Wandsworth Arndale Centre, and was the largest of the UK-wide chain of Arndale Centres with 110 shops. It occupies much of the town centre of Wandsworth, with five blocks of apartments, and the River Wandle running in a culvert underneath. It initially included a mix of shops, offices and restaurants, as well as a market traders hall, although the latter has since been redeveloped. At one point it also housed a large nightclub, which closed in 2002. The centre suffered a notable decline in the 1980s and 1990s and gained a reputation as a 'value' oriented centre, before being extensively renovated and relaunched in 2004 with a significantly improved mix of shops relevant to all households in the catchment area.〔Southside Wandsworth - (Welcome )〕 The shopping centre is anchored by a Waitrose supermarket, large TK Maxx and a new Debenhams.〔Drapers, 25 October 2012, Helen Turnbull (Debenhams to open store in Wandsworth )〕 The upper mall contains a food plaza containing an Ed's Easy Diner, Ekachai, Frankie & Benny's, KFC, McDonald's, Nandos and Prezzo as well a 14-screen Cineworld cinema. Two gyms also reside in the centre with a Virgin Active at the Wandsworth High Street end of the shopping centre and an easyGym on Garratt Lane. A large recently refurbished and extended branch of Sainsbury's is located opposite on Garratt Lane together with a Premier Inn Hotel and branch of Sports Direct. With of retail space,〔Metro Shopping Fund - (MSF makes first acquisition with purchase of half a million square feet in Wandsworth )〕 Southside remains one of London's largest shopping centres in terms of its ground floor square footage (aside from the Westfield Shopping centres in White City and Stratford), and currently attracts around 8.5 million visitors a year.〔Land Securities portfolio - - (Southside Shopping Centre )〕 Redevelopment of the eastern section of the centre fronting Garratt Lane was completed in October 2015, with a £40 million project involving the demolition of office accommodation and the creation of a further of retail space. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southside Wandsworth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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