Open the West Midlands Designer Outlet in England

Delivered after the deadline (163 days after the deadline)

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Announced: 31 Jul 2019
Due: 31 Oct 2020
Delivered: 12 Apr 2021

Deadline
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What the company said

“West Midlands Designer Outlet (Cannock, England); scheduled to open in October 2020.”

SourceSimon Property Group Form 8-K press release, 2019-07-31
FilingSEC filing index
Deadline as statedOctober 2020
Deadline used31 Oct 2020, the last day of the stated period
TypeFacility
Permanent referenceKI-C-2019-SPG-016720
Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2019-SPG-016720/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

The company announced an October 2020 opening for the West Midlands Designer Outlet, but filings confirm the center actually opened on April 12, 2021.

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Simon Property Group 10-Q filed 2021-08-04 Regulatory filing · published 4 Aug 2021 · retrieved 19 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 079e7e0727b2
“On April 12, 2021, we opened West Midlands Designer Outlet, a 197,000 square foot center in Cannock, United Kingdom.” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved +4.1% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (3 Aug 2021 to 6 Aug 2021). What this measures

Checked 19 Oct 2026.

Commitment lineage

Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.

Deadline drift +61 days
2 versions

Version 1 · original · stated 31 Jul 2019

Deadline 31 Oct 2020 (“October 2020”)
Version 2 · stated 4 Feb 2020

Deadline 31 Dec 2020 (“in 2020”) · wording firm

“Three projects are scheduled to open in 2020, including ... West Midlands Designer Outlet (Cannock, England)”
Source for this version

Commitment DNA

The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.

Event type: Facility other
Indicative materiality: Medium rules
Action: Open
Deliverable: West Midlands Designer Outlet
Where: England
In the company’s control: High
Specificity: High

How this entry was checked

Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.

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