Westfield Stratford City

Westfield Stratford City opened in September 2011 at the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, with approximately 175,000 sqm of gross leasable area as the largest urban shopping centre in Europe at opening and the commercial anchor for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park regeneration in the London Borough of Newham. The centre is owned by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and LaSalle Investment Management as the primary retail and commercial component of the Olympic legacy masterplan.

Stratford Station is one of the UK’s busiest transport interchanges, handling approximately 50 million passenger journeys annually from the Jubilee Line, Elizabeth Line, DLR, Greater Anglia and c2c National Rail services, London Overground, and the Javelin HS1 high-speed service to Kent, six separate rail services converging at a single station integrated directly into the shopping centre’s transit concourse. This transit connectivity gives Westfield Stratford City the most accessible catchment of any enclosed mall in Europe: the Elizabeth Line alone connects the centre to Heathrow Airport, the City of London, and Reading within a single service. John Lewis, Marks & Spencer, Primark, H&M, and a comprehensive luxury, fashion, and lifestyle tenant mix serve a catchment from across east London, Essex, and Kent. Vue Cinema multiplex and the Olympic Park public realm adjacent create a leisure and outdoor environment that supplements the retail offer.

East London and the extended Elizabeth Line catchment give Westfield Stratford City access to approximately 5 million London and southeast England consumers within 45 minutes of transit travel. The east London regeneration context, with Newham among the most economically active boroughs in London for development investment, creates a growing residential population within walking and cycling distance of the centre.

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and LaSalle manage Westfield Stratford City as the Olympic legacy commercial anchor. The six-service Stratford Station integration creates the most transit-connected retail environment in Europe, and the Elizabeth Line’s opening fundamentally expanded the accessible catchment westward to Heathrow and eastward to Essex.