Lewisham Shopping Centre

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Lewisham Centre
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Location	Lewisham, England
Opening date	1975 - 1977
Management	Land Securities Properties Limited
Owner	Lewisham Borough
No. of stores and services	70
No. of anchor tenants	5
Total retail floor area	330,000 sq
Parking	800 spaces
No. of floors	1 (2, if counting indvichial stores)
Website	www.lewishamcentre.co.uk

Lewisham Shopping Centre, formerly Riverdale Centre, is a shopping mall located in Lewisham, London, United Kingdom. The mall has seen a 7% rise in footfall since the Docklands Light Railway extension came to Lewisham. The centre is the only one inside the borough of Lewisham (unless you count the small shopping plaza in Catford), and also the nearby Greenwich Borough. The centre is also the home of a large Citibank tower, this is not accessible from inside the centre, and is not a public shopping place/bank.

The centre is located in Lewisham town centre. The official address is on Molesworth Street (a dual-carridgeway part of the A21), but most shoppers enter and leave on the high street, which houses many more shops such as Peacocks, McDonalds, Currys Digital, Gamestation and Iceland. The car park is located on top of the centre and is multi-storey.

The shopping centre has the usual facilities such as baby changing. One of the highlights of Lewisham was the indoor children's play area, which was always busy. But in 2006 it was filled in and left empty, it is not known why Riverdale did this. Now it's sometimes just left as one big square in the middle or has a few pieces of furniture for sale.

[edit] Shops

There are a lot of shops in the centre, here are a selection of the stores:

Marks and Spencer - Had two floors, but in the early 2000's converted to one floor.
TK Maxx - 3 Floor Store. Was Littlewoods and Index before they closed down. Opened 2006
Bhs - British Home Stores
Woolworths
Sainsbury's - Used to be J Sainsbury's and may be changed to Sainsbury's Central.
Boots
Argos
WHSmith
Mothercare
Next - 2 Floor Store. Small unit, but it used to be in a tiny store now located by Fusion
Evans
Sony Centre
Wallis
Adams
New Look
Pound Stretcher
Burton & Dorothy Perkins
Game
MK One

There are a few un-notable stores. (NOTE:Most of the other units are small)

[edit] Transport

Lewisham has very good public transport links, so getting to the centre is quite easy.

Docklands Light Railway - At Lewisham station, which is just a couple of minutes away. The DLR has services to Greenwich, Isle of Dogs (for Canary Wharf and the Docklands area), Stratford and the City.
Southeastern - Train services to destinations including Central London, Dartford, and Kent.
There are bus stops on both sides of the centre and Lewisham Bus station outside the train station, for services to Croydon, Bromley and Woolwich.