CastleCourt

CastleCourt
Outside CastleCourt in 2009
Location Belfast
Opening date 1990 [1]
Owner Hermes
No. of stores and services 126 [2]
No. of anchor tenants 5
Total retail floor area ~31,121m² [3]
No. of floors 2
Parking 1600 [4]
Website castlecourt-uk.com

CastleCourt is a shopping centre on Royal Avenue in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is Northern Ireland's third largest shopping centre after Victoria Square and Foyleside in Derry. As at 2007 it had approximately 16 million visits a year.[3], and sale densities ranked in the top 10% in the UK.[3]

History

Inside in 2010

The centre was built by John Laing on the site of the former Grand Central Hotel. The prestigious nature of the development made it a target for the Provisional IRA: the centre was bombed five times during its construction, four times after it opened, and suffered incendiary bomb attacks. It is now the third largest shopping complex in Northern Ireland after the construction of the new Victoria Square shopping centre;[5] which is also located in Belfast and Foyleside,[6] Londonderry.

References

  1. ↑ Shopping in Belfast Archived 2002-11-05 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑
  3. 1 2 3 Westfield Group - Westfield CastleCourt Archived 2007-10-19 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-01-17. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
  5. ↑ Sharrock, David. Belfast basks in new kind of boom; Confusion surrounds attempts to attract foreign investment but on the city's streets the tills are ringing in the benefits of peace. The Guardian 1994-12-14
  6. ↑ "Foyleside 'About us'". Archived from the original on 2006-10-31. Retrieved 2006-12-11.

Coordinates: 54°36′1″N 5°55′53″W / 54.60028°N 5.93139°W / 54.60028; -5.93139

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