Cabot Circus

Format
Brief

City
Bristol

Country
UK

Metro Area
Bristol

Project Type
Mixed Use

Location Type
Central Business District

Land Uses
Education
Entertainment
Hotel
Multifamily Rental Housing
Parking
Restaurant
Retail

Keywords
BREEAM Excellence rating
Downtown revitalization
Educational outreach programs
Former brownfield site
Local building materials
Public art
Public-private partnership
Retail-led development
Roof gardens
Sustainable development
ULI Awards for Excellence 2009 Finalist

Site Size
40 acres
acres hectares

Date Started
2005

Date Opened
2008

A brief is a short version of a case study.

Cabot Circus is a 150,000-square-meter (1.6 million-sq. ft.) new urban quarter developed by the Bristol Alliance, a partnership between two of the United Kingdom’s largest developers, Land Securities and Hammerson. The mixed-use development was built in collaboration with the Bristol City Council, which was eager to revive a major district of the United Kingdom’s eighth-largest city. Cabot Circus was conceived as a new urban heart to the city and designed to provide Bristol’s affluent demographic with high-quality shopping, leisure, and entertainment, in hopes of moving the city up to a top shopping destination.

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Developers/Owners
Hammerson
London, UK

Land Securities Group
London, UK

Design Architect/Master Planner
Chapman Taylor LLP
London, UK

Website
www.cabotcircus.com

Principal Author(s)
Theodore Thoerig, Alexandra Notay, David Leipziger

ULI Awards for Excellence 2009 Finalist