Hundige is a suburb 18 kilometres (11 mi) southwest of Copenhagen in Greve Municipality . The suburb was originally a small town, but redeveloped into a suburb in the 1960s. The suburb was connected to Copenhagen's S-train network in 1976 and is served by Hundige railway station .
7-496: The Hundige StorCenter, a large shopping mall, was built in 1974. Since re-opening in 2009, the shopping center has been called Waves. It is the largest mall in Denmark by leasable space with approximately 78,000 m. The mall houses the third largest Bilka in Denmark and has more than 135 stores and restaurants. The mall has 3,200 free parking lots as shopping in the mall is mainly car based. The mall employs more than 1,500 people making it
14-528: A decrease in criminal activity since then, the most notable criminal activity being a raid on a potential bombs producer. This article about a location in the Region Zealand ( Denmark ) is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bilka Bilka is a Danish chain of hypermarkets . The first store opened in 1970 in Tilst , a suburb of Aarhus . The chain was founded by Herman Salling and
21-496: Is now a part of Salling Group . The name Bilka is derived from the German Billiges Kaufhaus (low-price department store), which its founder, Herman Salling had encountered during his business trips to West Germany . The first Bilka store was the first low-cost store in Denmark. With sale area of 10000 square meters and parking space for 1200 cars, this was also the largest store in Denmark. The opening of
28-457: Is the reason why the Bilka store was functioning as an open stock market with most of the goods stocked in pallets and forklifts in the aisles during open hours. At the beginning of 2010, the first Bilka store celebrated its 40th birthday and it was completely renovated. All of the old 31 cash registers, from 1970, were replaced with 28 new modern ones and 8 self-service terminals. Furthermore, all
35-503: The Danish media. The majority of people living in "Askerød" are first and second generation immigrants, most of whom are under the age of 18. The housing project called Gersagerparken was also known for criminal activity including Drive-by shooting as the project was the previous home of the Black Cobra gang , before the gang moved to the town Ishøj and Karlslunde . Gersagerparken has seen
42-540: The first Bilka store brought revision to the regional plan for Great Aarhus from 1954. According to that plan the area of Aarhus was supposed to have 2 new centers, but after the opening of the first Bilka store, this plan was no longer economically viable. The building of the store was approved by Brabrand-Årslev Parish, since the land was part of the Brabrand Parish .The developer of the store, however decided he wanted to create remote storage for Salling Group. That
49-501: The largest employer in Greve Municipality. The suburb had a relatively high rate of crime, most of which are committed in the large housing project called Askerød in the northern part of the suburb. There was at least one notable incident of homicide in the past Askerød is a concrete housing project made up of 3-4 story concrete buildings containing a total of 722 apartments. The area is often portrayed as an immigrant ghetto by
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