Westfield is a Mecca for London shoppers, teeming with everything from high street stores to fine jewellery brands, and food halls to furniture showrooms.
But the UK’s Westfield offerings will soon no longer be limited to the White City and Stratford malls.
The iconic shopping brand is venturing outside the capital, for the first time, to open its first Westfield shopping centre in Edinburgh.
St James’ Quarter, in the heart of the Scottish capital’s East End, has been acquired by retail titan Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), and will be rebranded as a Westfield centre in 2026.
The four-floor Scottish shopping galleria currently had more than 80 brands like & Other Stories, Bershka, H&M, and Zara. It also has a boutique Everyman cinema, and even places to stay like Roomzzz Aparthotels and W Edinburgh.
There’s plenty of food and drink offerings, too. From Duck & Waffle, Five Guys, Pret, and Wingstop – you’ll be spoiled for choice.
Just a two-minute walk from Edinburgh Waverly, with an indoor-outdoor layout, the shopping centre, which opened in 2021, spans 80,000sqm and sits among the top 20 highest-footfall detail destinations in Europe.
Westfield owners URW plan to ‘elevate [St James’ Quarter’s] performance by leveraging our retail operations and media expertise, as well as bringing the globally recognised Westfield brand to the destination’.
The group already has 66 shopping centres in 11 countries , 40 of which adopt the famous Westfield brand. These centres see more than 900million annual visits each year.
Both existing UK Westfield locations are incredibly popular, with Westfield Stratford City attracting 50million shoppers each year alone.
It first opened back in September 2011 and sits at the gateway to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic park, boasting more than 300 UK and international brands, as well as having the country’s largest All Star Lands bowling alley.
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Westfield London (in White City), is similarly successful, considering it’s continental Europe’s biggest shopping and leisure destination. It opened in 2008 and now has nearly 500 brands from food to clothing and jewellery to homeware.
As of now, it seems the URW has no plans to significantly change the offerings at St James’ Quarter, and the new name of the shopping centre is yet to be announced.
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