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22-572: The mall is a single-floor oval building with a floor area of 1,362,404 square feet (126,571 m). Inside, a single main hallway runs around the building in an O shape, with stores along either side. A single circuit of the main hallway is about 0.85 miles (1.37 km). Formerly operated by the Mills Corporation , it is now managed by Simon Property Group , who owns 59.3% of it. It is North Carolina's largest single-site tourist attraction, attracting 17.6 million visitors in 2005. The mall

44-421: A building or part of it. The ways of defining "floor area" depend on what factors of the building should or should not be included, such as external walls, internal walls, corridors, lift shafts, stairs, etc. Generally there are three major differences in measuring floor area. Gross floor area (GFA) in real estate is the total floor area inside the building envelope, including the external walls, and excluding

66-451: A building, except otherwise exempted, and uncovered areas for commercial uses are deemed the gross floor area of the building for purposes of plot ratio control and development charge. The gross floor area is the total area of the covered floor space measured between the centre line of party walls, including the thickness of external walls but excluding voids. Accessibility and usability are not criteria for exclusion from GFA. 3.2 URA reserves

88-580: A commercial property. Specifically, gross leasable area is the total floor area designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use, including any basements , mezzanines , or upper floors. It is typically expressed in square metres (although in some places such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, the square foot is used). It is measured from the center line of joint partitions and from outside wall faces. That is, gross leasable area

110-409: A deadly weapon and intent to kill. In December 2019, a 13 year old African-American girl was struck and killed by a stray bullet after she attempted to escape a fight between a group of teenage African-American males. Two other teenagers were also shot but did not receive life threatening injuries. In an unrelated case, the girl's cousin was himself murdered earlier the same hour. One of the suspects in

132-406: Is located about a mile from Charlotte Motor Speedway . On August 21, 2000 on a construction site near Concord Mills, a natural gas pipeline ruptured sending flames to heights of about 100 feet (30 m). As a result of the explosion, law enforcement officials closed local roads around the mall and Interstate 85 around rush hour (4 p.m.); the roads were reopened one hour later after the situation

154-544: Is the area for which tenants pay rent, and thus the area that produces income for the property owner. For a property with only one tenant, the measurements gross floor area (GFA) and gross leasable area (GLA) are essentially equal. The Building Owners and Managers Association has established a standard with American National Standards Institute , ANSI/BOMA Z65.1-1996 for measuring floor area and calculating gross leasable area and loss factor. Urban Redevelopment Authority The Urban Redevelopment Authority ( URA )

176-523: Is the national urban planning authority of Singapore, and a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development of the Government of Singapore . The authority was established on 1 April 1974, and is of critical importance to the city-state. Singapore is an extremely dense country where land usage is required to be efficient and maximized. The city state is trying to reduce land wastage in

198-464: The public and private sectors . In approving development applications, the URA states its goal is to foster orderly development conforming to the planning guidelines as stated in the statutory Master Plan and the existing control factors. URA tries to provide quality service when working in partnership with building industry professionals and the general public to foster development. URA is responsible for

220-722: The urban design of the city. For areas of special interest, such as the Singapore River area, the Orchard Road shopping belt, and the Marina Bay , URA devises specific medium and short-term urban design and land use plans. It also works with other government agencies in enhancing the city's urban design. Building conservation in Singapore is the responsibility of URA, which issued a Conservation Master Plan in 1989. This plan laid down guidelines and processes for

242-594: The built and natural environment no. 1 and no. 2. Since such facilities granted extra floor area to develop and usually included in the GFA/ selling area the developer sold to end-user, which made end-user confused, government planned to abolish the exclusion of green features and use alternative way to encourage green features. For the total floor area, HK use the term "site coverage". GFA in Singapore, defined by Urban Redevelopment Authority as of March 2014 is: 3 Definition of gross floor area 3.1 All covered floor areas of

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264-558: The conservation of culturally and historically significant buildings. More than 7000 buildings in Singapore have been gazetted as conserved buildings. URA also sells land by tender on behalf of the Singapore government to meet demand from private developers. URA deals with tenders for government land and applications to buy reserved land. The URA plays an important role in managing all public car parks outside of Housing Development Board estates. It provides information and services to

286-473: The face of land shortage in the area. URA's main responsibility is land-use planning . URA planners devise both long-term strategic plans, along with medium-term plans, which are reviewed every five to ten years. These plans designate the land use and urban density for the entirety of Singapore. These designations are divided by URA into 55 planning areas . It is the responsibility of URA to evaluate and grant planning approval for development projects from

308-693: The maximum GFA (excluding the non-accountable above) to develop. However it may be further reduced by the effect of plot ratio, maximum site coverage, maximum permitted height of building and Outline Zoning Plan. Moreover, roof and other uncovered area is exclude in Permitted GFA but usually had restricted use as opening space, corridor or emergence escaping area. Since 2001, to encourage the incorporation of green features in building developments, further facilities could be excluded/disregard in GFA. and defined at Joint Practice Notes on protection and improvement of

330-473: The public in regard to coupon parking, season parking, and heavy vehicle parking. URA also sets the bylaws to parking infringement and fines. In keeping with URA's function as the authority for urban design in Singapore, the URA Centre was conceptualised by URA's in-house architects. Kenzō Tange Associates and Kajima Design Asia Pte Ltd served as design consultants. The building consists of two blocks:

352-410: The purposes of regulations 19, 20, 21 and 22, the gross floor area of a building shall be the area contained within the external walls of the building measured at each floor level (including any floor below the level of the ground), together with the area of each balcony in the building, which shall be calculated from the overall dimensions of the balcony (including the thickness of the sides thereof), and

374-460: The right to decide on GFA matters based on the specific design of a development proposal on a case-by-case basis. With effect from January 2014, Private enclosed spaces (PES) and private roof terraces (PRT) are counted as part of the bonus GFA capped at 10% above the Master Plan that also includes balconies. Gross leasable area ( GLA ) is the amount of floor space available to be rented in

396-596: The roof. Definitions of GFA, including which areas are to be counted towards it and which areas aren't, vary around the world. Adding to this confusion is the practice among some developers to use gross leasable area (GLA) and GFA interchangeably, or to use GFA as GLA, even though GLA usually excludes corridors and other public areas inside the development, while both figures include areas occupied by structure, like walls and columns. Hong Kong law Chapter 123F, Building (Planning) Regulations , Regulation 23 sect 3 sub-paragraph (a) defined that: Subject to sub-paragraph (b), for

418-718: The separation of refuse to the satisfaction of the Building Authority, or for access facilities for telecommunications and broadcasting services, or occupied solely by machinery or equipment for any lift, air-conditioning or heating system or any similar service. (L.N. 406 of 1987; 39 of 2000 s. 7) The non-accountable GFA is further defined in Practice Notes for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geotechnical Engineers no APP-2. Permitted GFA in Hong Kong land lease agreement generally

440-499: The shooting was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and felony riot on the Wednesday morning following the attack. Two days later, Police announced they had arrested another suspect. This was the first instance of murder on mall property. Floor area In architecture , construction , and real estate , floor area , floor space , or floorspace is the area (measured in square metres or square feet ) taken up by

462-584: The thickness of the external walls of the building. sub-paragraph (b): In determining the gross floor area for the purposes of regulations 20, 21 and 22, the Building Authority may disregard any floor space that he is satisfied is constructed or intended to be used solely for parking motor vehicles, loading or unloading of motor vehicles, or for refuse storage chambers, refuse storage and material recovery chambers, material recovery chambers, refuse storage and material recovery rooms, refuse chutes, refuse hopper rooms and other types of facilities provided to facilitate

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484-473: Was contained. The event received national network television coverage and news helicopters provided much of the video shown on national television. In March 2019, a man was shot by an 18 year old African-American male inside the AMC theater after a dispute over seating. This incident lead to yet another panic which resulted in a total evacuation. The suspect was arrested the following day and charged with assault with

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