Braehead is a shopping centre located in Renfrew near Glasgow. Braehead Shopping Centre and Retail Park has been open since 1999 and now has over one million square feet of shopping and leisure facilities. “Glaswegian” redirects here. ... Gross leasable area (GLA) in the retail development industry is a term applied to shopping malls, lifestyle centers, outlet malls and other retail centers to indicate the amount of floor space available to be rented. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A square foot is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 foot long. ...

Infomation

The shopping centre, which is owned by Capital Shopping Centres opened in late 1999. It comprises 98,474m² (1.06million ft²) of retail and leisure floorspace [1]. The centre has 110 shops in the main covered mall, and a further 10 in a retail park of larger stores. Additionally, Braehead is also home to Glasgow's IKEA store which opened in 2001 and sits near the King George V dock. At 29,000m² it is the largest in both Scotland and the United Kingdom. Since opening, the centre has proved popular with consumers (indeed it has been blamed for a downturn in the fortunes of shops in nearby Paisley, Govan and Renfrew). A shopping centre management company, Capital Shopping Centres own several shopping centres in the U.K. such as the Eldon Square in Newcastle upon Tyne and the MetroCentre in Gateshead. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... IKEA is a privately-owned, international, low-cost home products retailer that sells modern, utilitarian design furniture, much of which is assembled by the consumer. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Govan (Baile a Ghobhainn in Gaelic) is a district and former burgh in the southwestern part of the Scottish city of Glasgow. ... Renfrew (Rinn Friù in Scottish Gaelic) is a small town, located six miles west of Glasgow on the west coast of Scotland. ...

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Location

It was the subject of a dispute between City of Glasgow and Renfrewshire councils, as originally the council boundary line divided the shopping centre in two, but a Boundaries Commission ruling eventually redrew the boundary to include all of the centre in Renfrewshire, however development areas close to the King George V dock to the east of Braehead are still in Glasgow to allow the dock to remain in one authority. The boundary runs along the side of Old Renfrew Road / Kings Inch Road and is represented by a chain link fence at this point. The City of Glasgow Council (Mòr-bhaile Ghlaschu in Gaelic) is one of the 32 Scottish unitary authorities, formerly Glasgow District Council and Glasgow Corporation in Glasgow, Scotland. ...

A large Renfrew Riverside development is in construction to the West side of Braehead involving a large area of house building, as well as Xscape, an indoor ski slope and entertainments complex, which opened in the Spring of 2006. Xscape buildings (named after the company that developed them) are large, strikingly designed and unusually shaped buildings. ... Indoor ski slopes are found in several countries, proving a climate controlled environment can be maintained in which snow can be manufactured using a snow cannon, enabling skiing to take place year-round. ...

To the south of the shopping centre is a small development called Braehead Business Park, home to the global headquarters of Picsel Technologies. Picsel Technologies are a software company that design and develop products for handheld devices such as mobile phones. ...

It can be reached from Junctions 25a (westbound) and 26 (eastbound) of the M8 motorway, and has extensive public transport connections including its own bus station, managed by Arriva. Buses run from many areas linking Braehead to Largs, Greenock, Paisley, Glasgow, Erskine and Johnstone. The Pride of the Clyde ferry service also runs from Glasgow City Centre to Braehead's pier down the River Clyde regularly, taking 30 minutes. Kingston Bridge M8 running alongside the Clyde This Stub in the Tradeston area, popularly known as the ski-ramp, is the abandoned interchange for the southern flank of the Glasgow Inner Ring Road The M8 is the busiest motorway in Scotland. ... An Arriva train in Denmark Arriva plc is a UK-based international public transport operator and vehicle rental company, headquartered in Sunderland. ...

Events

In 2000 its curling facilities hosted the World Championships, and in 2005 were used as training facilities when the Women's World Championships were being held in Paisley. Curling is a team sport with similarities to bowls and bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared ice by two teams of four players each. ...

External links

• Braehead Shopping and Leisure Centre
• Renfrewshire Council