Union Square Aberdeen

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Union Square
UnionSquareLogo.png
"See U There", "It's Happening"
Location Guild Street, Aberdeen, Scotland
Opening date 29 October 2009
Developer Hammerson
Owner Hammerson
No. of stores and services 60+ (plus 15 Restaurants)
No. of anchor tenants 1 (Marks & Spencer)
Total retail floor area 700,000 ft² (65,000 m²)
Parking 1700 spaces (3 floors + surface)
No. of floors 2
Website Union Square
Union Square at night

Union Square is a shopping centre located in the centre of Aberdeen, Scotland, which opened to the public on Thursday, 29 October 2009. The centre contains a covered shopping mall and retail park.[1]

Following delays, the developer Hammerson began construction of Union Square in 2007. Costing £250 million, it is one of the largest city centre shopping developments in the United Kingdom and the second largest in Scotland after Glasgow's Buchanan Galleries, with a total retail space of 700,000 square feet (65,000 m2).[2]

Located on Guild Street and Market Street, the development adjoins onto the side of Aberdeen railway station and new bus station creating a transport hub.[1] The mall houses more than 60 shops, over fifteen restaurants, a ten screen 2,300 seat Cineworld cinema (the largest in Aberdeen) and a 3-star Jurys Inn hotel with 203 rooms.[2] The hotel opened on 4 September 2009. More than 40 shops were trading on opening day and this number rose to around 50 by Christmas, with many other retailers opening in 2010 and into 2011.

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[edit] Opening hours

Shopping: Monday - Friday 9:00am – 8:00pm Saturday 9:00am – 7:00pm Sunday Between 10:00am and 11:00am opening - 5:00pm (Depending on the store)

Dining: Monday - Sunday 11:00am – 11:00pm

The centre is open daily from 6:30am to allow pedestrian access to the bus and train stations and remains open until the early hours of the morning (due to the cinema's late opening hours).

12:30am Monday - Thursday 2:00am Friday - Saturday 12:30am Sunday

[edit] Background/Development

[edit] Timeline

1998

  • Stannifer Developments acquired land at Raiths Farm.

1999

  • Stannifer Developments enter in to a joint venture agreement with Railtrack Developments Limited and Union Square Developments is formed.

2000

  • Union Square Developments secure planning consent for the scheme.

2001

  • Hammerson acquire Railtrack Developments and thereby 50% of Union Square Developments.

2002/2003

  • Railtrack taken into receivership and Network Rail formed.

2004

  • Chelsfield acquire Stannifer and thereby 50% of Union Square Developments.

2005

  • Multiplex acquire Chelsfield and thereby 50% of Union Square Developments.

2006

  • Hammerson acquires Multiplex’s 50% of Union Square Developments and thereby 100% ownership of the Union Square scheme.

2007

  • Union Square Developments lodge an amended planning application for the provision of a hotel and other minor amendments to the scheme.
  • Union Square Developments start on site with the construction of the new bus station.
  • Union Square Developments complete the construction of the first new rail yard. After circa.150 years the Guild Street site is now no longer a rail yard.

2008

  • Union Square Developments complete and handover new bus station to Stagecoach and new state of the art travel centre to First ScotRail.

[edit] Development/Construction

July 2008

  • Roof work commences

September 2008

  • Completion of structural steelwork
  • Cladding work commences

November 2008

  • Development weather tight

February 2009

May 2009

  • Cinema shell handover to Cineworld

June 2009

  • Commencement of unit handovers

July 2009

  • Laying of ground level carpark
  • Removal of on site portacabins

August 2009

  • Public Open Day (Sunday 23 August)

September 2009

October 2009

  • Scheme completion/opening (Thursday 29 October)

[edit] Latest News

  • Hugo Boss have now opened in Unit GS8 (in between Hollister and Fat Face).
  • Greggs have now opened in the east mall.
  • Oriental restaurant Cosmo will be opening a new eatery in MSU3 on the ground floor by the bus station. This is currently in solicitors hand's, and the unit will open Qtr 1 2012.[3]
  • Top designer store Kath Kidston will be opening a store on the ground floor on 29 March 2012. It is thought this will be located where PULP recently vacated.[4]


[edit] Store Openings

Now Open:

Opening Soon:

[edit] Tenants

[edit] Retail Park

[edit] Shopping Mall

[edit] Ground Floor

[edit] First Floor

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Hammerson announces opening date for Union Square in Aberdeen". Property Week. http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=297&storycode=3147044&c=1#ixzz0OcjSe7Wg. Retrieved 2009-08-13. 
  2. ^ a b "Revealed: massive Aberdeen centre". Evening Express (Aberdeen). http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/699617?UserKey=. Retrieved 2009-08-13. 
  3. ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.culverwell.co.uk/results.php?UserKey=%7Cpublisher=Culverwell (London)|author=|date=|accessdate=2011-11-01|title=
  4. ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/2649423?UserKey=%7Cpublisher=Evening Express (Aberdeen)|author=|date=|accessdate=2012-02-20|title=

[edit] External links

Coordinates: 57°8′37″N 2°5′42″W / 57.14361°N 2.095°W / 57.14361; -2.095

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