Colonnades Leisure Park
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The Colonnades Leisure Park (also known as Croydon Colonnades) is an out-of-town leisure park located in the Purley Way retail and industrial district of the London Borough of Croydon, South London which opened in the late 1990s. The retail park was built on the former site of the Croydon Water Palace, an indoor water park complex that opened in 1990, but had to close due to financial difficulties.
The Colonnades faces tough competition with Valley Park Retail Area, the main commercial area on Purley Way and is less busy due to the lack of an anchor tenant (Valley Park has IKEA and Purley Way Retail Park has Sainsbury's). Although it is centering itself as more of a entertainment complex than shopping area. The retail park is the southern most on the A23 Purley Way road and is close to Purley town centre. The site of Croydon Airport is opposite the site of the retail Park.
Most of the outlets in the park are entertainment oriented, such as City Limits an entertainment centre, with a restaurant, bar, arcade and bowling facilities. Others include Pizza Hut, McDonalds (one of three on Purley Way), Premier Inn, formerly a Hilton Hotel, Kidspace, and Green's health and fitness centre. T.G.I. Friday's has a restaurant opposite the retail area. It is next to a large green space area called the Purley Way Playing Fields.
