Kings Mall

Kings Mall
Location London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, England, UK
Coordinates 51°29′35″N 0°13′41″W / 51.49300°N 0.22800°W / 51.49300; -0.22800Coordinates: 51°29′35″N 0°13′41″W / 51.49300°N 0.22800°W / 51.49300; -0.22800
Opening date 1980
Developer St Martins Property Group
Management Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
Owner Schroders
No. of stores and services 44
No. of anchor tenants 5
Total retail floor area 340,000 sq ft
No. of floors 1
Parking 700-space basement car park
Website kings-mall.co.uk

Kings Mall is a shopping centre in Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The development is situated off King Street.

History

The shopping centre was developed by St Martins Property Group and first opened in 1980. It originally came with a 950-space car park. Residential apartments are situated above the mall.

In 2011, the owner of Kings Mall, St Martins Property Group sold it to Matterhorn Capital for £115 million.[1]

In June 2015, Matterhorn Capital sold the shopping centre on to its current owner Schroders for £153 million.[2]

In 2016, the car park was demolished and replaced with a smaller 700-space car park with new residential apartments situated above it.[3]

As of 2018, the centre is currently undergoing a multimillion-pound transformation.[4]

Retail units

Current tenants

As of 2018, the centre currently houses around 44 retail units.

There are five anchor stores, including a branch of Primark in Unit 1. Units 2-3 are occupied by Sainsbury's (who relocated from a smaller Sainsbury's Central branch opposite the east entrance of Kings Mall in 2005). The other anchor stores are WHSmith (the only original tenant left and whose shop includes a Post Office in-store concession), H&M and New Look.

In addition, as of 2018 Kings Mall currently has branches of Wilko, Tiger, Specsavers, Warren James, Poundland, Card Factory, Foot Locker, Clarks, Holland & Barrett, Toni & Guy, Utopia, Oxygen Red, Sky, Carphone Warehouse, EE, 02, Ping Pong Parlour, Wasabi, Costa Coffee, Patisserie Valerie, Natwest, HSBC and Santander.

Former tenants

There have been many former tenants since Kings Mall opened in 1980.

The principal ones are Safeway (whose Hammersmith branch has been a Sainsbury's since 2005),[5] Littlewoods, Mothercare, Early Learning Centre, River Island, Blue Inc, Habitat, Superdrug, The Body Shop, H. Samuel, Sports Direct, JD Sports, Game, Dixons, Clintons, Mrs Florist, Vodafone, Starbucks, McDonald's, Burger King and Feast Canteen.

Car park

Kings Mall Car Park serves the Kings Mall shopping centre and the wider Hammersmith area. It is situated to the rear of the development off Glenthorne Road.

Original car park

When Kings Mall opened in 1980, it originally came with a 950-space four storey multi-storey car park developed by St Martins Property Group. The size of this car park meant that not only could it serve the customers of the Kings Mall shopping centre, but it could also be used by people visiting other areas in Hammersmith town centre or even commuters using the Hammersmith tube stations.

Current car park

When St Martins Property Group sold Kings Mall in 2011 to Matterhorn Capital, plans were drawn up to demolish the multi-storey car park off Glenthorne Road along with the adjacent West 45 office building off Beadon Road, and replace it with a mixed use development by St George (part of Berkeley Group Holdings), to be called Sovereign Court. The plans include erecting a single building with heights ranging from 4-17 storeys, plus two basement levels, to provide a smaller 700-space replacement public basement car park, new ground floor commercial floorspace and 418 new homes with 53 residential parking spaces and 460 cycle spaces.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Matterhorn Palos Partnership exchanges on £115m Kings Mall St Martins purchase". Property Week.
  2. ↑ "Schroders buys Hammersmith's Kings Mall Shopping Centre-backed portfolio for £153m". CoStar.
  3. ↑ "Kings Mall car park and West 45 office building to be demolished". Hammersmith Today.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ "REG-Sainsbury(J) PLC Store acquisitions". otp.investis.com.
  6. ↑ "Kings Mall Car Park". London City Hall.
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