Redmond underwent a commercial boom during the 1990s, culminating in 1997 with the opening of Redmond Town Center, a major regional shopping center on the site of a long-defunct golf course.

Restaurants and other shopping pleasures have been a major boom in Canton industry.

Puerto Rico's shopping mall boom of the 1980s provided Topeka with further opportunity to open in more locations.

One of his government actions was to give shopping coupons to 35 million citizens in the hope it would spark a consumer boom.

Nor did the street benefit from a consumer boom during the 1990s, as this was largely diverted toward a series of new shopping malls opened in the city's north side.

The city is also known for its business boom ; being one of the richest cities in Bangladesh, with new investments of hotels, shopping malls and luxury housing estates, brought mainly by expatriates living in the United Kingdom.

During this period, there has also been an economic boom in Mount Barker and a number of additional malls and shopping centres, such as the recently completed Adelaide Hills Home-maker Centre, with a radio rentals, a Harvey Norman, the new offices for the District Council of Mount Barker.

It has an almost thriving shopping centre and it has seen a recent boom in house building thanks to its direct train link with Glasgow.

The suburb of Hillcrest experienced a building boom in the 1990s and 2000s with the construction of many gated communities and shopping centres.

Today, according to land economist Homer Hoyt, shopping centers and their associated parking lots cover some 46,000 acres of land, which is almost exactly the total land area in all the nation's Central Business Districts put together.

He came to a stretch of old orange groves, the trees dead, some of them uprooted, and then there was an outlying shopping area, and tract houses.

In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

Akihabara is a major shopping area for electronic, computer, anime, and otaku goods, including new and used items.

Bergen County, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation ; four major malls lie within the county.

This is the primary site of Harvard University, and is a major Cambridge shopping area.

Princes Street is the main shopping area in the city centre, with a wide range of stores from souvenir shops, from chains such as Boots and H & M and institutions like Jenners.

Karachi has many glitzy shopping malls in the Clifton area, Tariq Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal and Hyderi shopping area, such as Park Towers, The Forum, Dolmen Mall and Millenium Mall.

It was built as a smart tree-lined avenue in late Victorian times and improved over the next half century as a local shopping place for its neighbourhood and the affluent area to the north.

It is a particularly popular attraction for visitors: the " Arkaden " shopping mall is 180 metres in length and contains 133 shops and restaurants on three levels giving a total sales floor area of approx.

Also named after him are the hamlets of Stuyvesant and Stuyvesant Falls in Columbia County, New York, where descendants of the early Dutch settlers still live and where the Dutch Reformed Church remains an important part of the community, as well as shopping centers, yacht clubs and other buildings and facilities throughout the area where the Dutch colony once was.

* Siam area in Bangkok, the neighbourhood surrounding Siam Square and several shopping centres within the vicinity which bear Siam as part of their names

The town centre was closed to traffic in 1981 when a bypass was constructed to take traffic away from the main shopping area.

In August 2012 the northern part of the shopping centre underwent a £ 700, 000 renovation, the raised area holding the former fountain was removed and new block paving installed.

In 2008, the reconstructed Pieter Vreedeplein was opened to public, creating more shopping area in the city which had not the shopping possibilities as similar-sized cities in the Netherlands.

It now acts as a shopping and service centre, and as a focus of educational and cultural activities, for its surrounding rural area, and is linked by the A40 road to the M4 motorway at Newport and the M50 at Ross-on-Wye.

File: Church Street, Monmouth-geograph. org. uk-307856. jpg | Church Street, a pedestrianised shopping area

There are several other major shopping centers in the Columbia area, including Snowden Square, Columbia Crossing I and II, Dobbin Center, and Gateway Overlook.

High Town, Hereford-Pedestrianised shopping area

Main Street of Oakland consists mainly of historic two to four story buildings that house the main shopping in the area, such as a theatre, museum, book store, a local pharmacy, antique shops, clothing stores and banks.

The Cinquième Arrondissement is home to a large shopping area.

Sipping their coffee, discussing the weather, the day's shopping, Fritzie's commitments at the network ( all of which he would cancel ), they avoided the radio, the morning TV news show, even the front page of the Santa Luisa Register, resting on the kitchen bar.

If this woman had delayed until after 11:20 to start her shopping, she would have had little time in which to prepare the substantial meal that was eaten at dinner in those days.

Updated in the 1920s to these guides gave shopping suggestions for different-sized families along with a Depression Era revision which included four cost levels.

This leaves an opportunity for the controversial practice of " fatwā shopping ", in which an individual asks the same question of different sheiks until they receive an answer they like.

The plantation no longer exists, however the land in which the plantation was located is now a San Patricio suburb with a shopping mall by the same name.

The adjoint shopping centre, which will be constructed until 2015, will be one of the 5 biggest in Europe and among the 10 biggest IKEA stores in the world.

Other places of interest include Kabul City Center, which is Kabul's first shopping mall, the shops around Flower Street and Chicken Street, Wazir Akbar Khan district, Kabul Golf Club, Kabul Zoo, Abdul Rahman Mosque, Shah-Do Shamshira and other famous mosques, the National Gallery of Afghanistan, the National Archives of Afghanistan, Afghan Royal Family Mausoleum, the OMAR Mine Museum, Bibi Mahro Hill, Kabul Cemetery, and Paghman Gardens.

The Ice Organisation launched MyIce. com in 2010, a scheme which rewards consumers for shopping in a more sustainable way.

For instance, polyethylene ( PE ) is a cheap, low friction polymer commonly used to make disposable shopping bags and trash bags, and is considered a commodity plastic, whereas medium-density polyethylene ( MDPE ) is used for underground gas and water pipes, and another variety called Ultra-high Molecular Weight Polyethylene UHMWPE is an engineering plastic which is used extensively as the glide rails for industrial equipment and the low-friction socket in implanted hip joints.

Sociologists attribute this dramatic change to " ethnic shifting " or " ethnic shopping "; they believe that it reflects a willingness of people to question their birth identities and adopt new ethnicities which they find more compatible.

Since few skateparks were available to skaters at this time, street skating pushed skaters to seek out shopping centers and public and private property as their " spot " to skate ( public opposition, in which businesses, governments, and property owners have banned skateboarding on properties under their jurisdiction or ownership, would progressively intensify over the following decades ).

There has been significant and consistent commercial and retail development in the Westmorland Road-McAllister Drive-Consumer's Drive-Major's Brook Drive-Retail Drive corridor since the 1970s, including McAllister Place, the city's largest shopping mall, which opened in 1978, and with active year-to-year development since 1994.

Websites present the consumer with various options for searching and selecting products and services, which offer speed and convenience of shopping from home or the office.

The galleria is covered by an arching glass and cast iron roof, a popular design for 19th-century arcades, such as the Burlington Arcade in London, which was the prototype for larger glazed shopping arcades, beginning with the Saint-Hubert Gallery in Brussels and the Passazh in St Petersburg.

Networks that consist entirely of home shopping or infomercials may instead pay the station or cable / satellite provider, which is known as brokered programming.

To the south is the Murat quarter ( erected by Joachim Murat ), the modern heart of the city, which is laid out on a rectangular grid-plan with a promenade on the sea and the major shopping district ( the via Sparano and via Argiro ).

ITV Digital operated out of Marco Polo House, the south London building home to shopping channel QVC and which had once housed The Observer newspaper, but perhaps most famous as the lavish headquarters of the ill-fated British Satellite Broadcasting.

Sometimes the anti-Chinese attitudes turn violent, such as the May 13 Incident in Malaysia in 1969 and the Jakarta riots of May 1998 in Indonesia, in which more than 2, 000 people died, mostly rioters burned to death in a shopping mall.

Takoma Park is bounded by downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, a major urban center to the northwest, by Montgomery College campus ; East Silver Spring, a community of houses, apartments and small shops, along Flower Avenue and Piney Branch Road, to the north ; Langley Park, Maryland, a community of apartments and shopping centers, along University Boulevard to the northeast ; Chillum, Maryland, in Prince George's County to the southeast, bounded by New Hampshire Avenue, a state highway ; and Takoma, Washington, D. C. to the southwest, separated by Eastern Avenue, which follows the District of Columbia line.