The city retains a thriving market culture, despite new shopping developments and the loss of some traditional market sites.

) They also founded the Villa Park Orchard's Association, still a thriving business in Orange, although the packing house that was the dominant Villa Park landmark for many years, located west of the shopping center, was torn down in 1983.

Point Pleasant Beach's official site boasts a thriving downtown business and shopping district, which includes an annual Seafood Festival in September.

The downtown area is the remnant of a once thriving shopping district, while the residential areas are the remains of housing built for Clairton Works employees.

The gradual decline of these industries gave way to the villages small but thriving shopping centre.

The area became the location for a thriving shopping area, known as " the Piccadilly of South London ", with its own department store ( William Tarn and Co ) and many smaller outlets.

Lisle was a shopping mecca, and the wares produced at the numerous mills were being sold in the thriving " Center Lisle " ( originally called Yorkshire ).

Furthermore, the St. Lawrence Centre Mall, once a thriving shopping center, has seen nearly 70 % of its stores leave the town.

The Laurimar Estate has a thriving shopping centre with two gymnasiums, several coffee shops, bakery, dentist, deli, a supermarket, a greengrocer, two pizza shops, several ATMS, two cafes, a fish and chips shop, an Indian restaurant, a hairdresser, newsagent, travel agent, podiatrist, dentist, doctor, pharmacist, clothes store and two community centres.

The thriving shopping district has an abundance of butchers, bakeries, beauty salons, and specialty shops selling sweets.

The development of the town continued to be rapid and Penarth soon became self sufficient with its own local government, a thriving shopping centre and many new community facilities.

It is a common species, having adapted well to urban environments and thriving around shopping centres and garbage dumps.

A shopping center has recently been built in Lachenaie, turning the small town into a thriving community.

Such supermarkets have also revitalized the once-rundown sections of Bellaire Blvd in Houston, Texas, and turned it into a thriving new Asian shopping district.

Ravensburg is today a thriving shopping town in the wealthy region of Upper Swabia.

The 2006 census revealed the population of Kaikohe to be just over 4000 people, but it is the thriving shopping and service centre for an extensive farming district with a catchment of 28, 000 people.

From the early 1900s through to the 1960s, the thriving shopping precinct was dominated by McWhirters, Beirne's and, later, Overells ' department stores.

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.

Today, Te Puke is a thriving town with a reasonably large main shopping street, Jellicoe Street, which is also the main road passing through Te Puke.

The growth of supermarket shopping has decimated a formerly thriving small retail sector and many residents go to nearby towns, particularly Kingston, for their main shopping requirements.

In the 1960s and 1970s, many people began to travel to the Halifax downtown area and later on, to the shopping centers and malls in the region to do their purchasing, and the community took on a " bedroom community " aspect: the great majority of the residents work elsewhere, with relatively few local thriving local businesses.

Despite a televised public statement by the nation's Chief Prosecutor expressing his firm belief that hundreds of citizens of Günzburg had knowingly and willingly contributed to a criminal conspiracy aiming to conceal evidence from local and federal police as well as to United Nations authorities while actively harboring and abetting a Nazi war criminal, Günzburg has since bounced back from criticism and flourished, boasting a thriving downtown shopping area, scenic views of the nearby historic castle, and one of the top five Legoland theme parks in Germany.

By the mid-1930s Crouch End was a solid, middle-class town with a thriving and popular shopping centre that included an Opera House in the middle of Topsfield Parade.

Archaeological findings in the Sarawak river delta reveal that the area was once a thriving trading centre between India and China from the 500's until about 1300 AD.

The area, known as Kutmichevitsa, became an important Bulgarian cultural center in 10th century with many thriving towns such as Devol, Glavinitsa ( Ballsh ) and Belgrad ( Berat ).

Southsea has a thriving commercial area which includes two national department stores and many other well-known high street chains.

The area also had a thriving livestock trade in cattle and chicken ranches.

In the early 20th century, the town became a thriving agricultural town with apricots, grapes and prunes being grown in the area.

By 1836 area farmers had a thriving economic base that allowed them to export their cattle and cattle by-products into Mexico.

Many mines and thriving gold rush towns such as Brackettown no longer exist, although scattered ruins and cemeteries mark many locations of the gold rush period. There were other mines in the area also including an old mine in Woodlawn.

Because much of the former Surrey Docks had strong trade links to Scandinavia and the Baltic region the area is still home to a thriving Scandinavian community.

The Lottery transformed Chattooga into a thriving agricultural area in the antebellum South with farms of varying size dotting the fertile landscape of the Chattooga Valley.

This area had developed into a thriving trading post due to steamboat traffic on the Macon.

Through a series of natural treatment processes – including the use of Eichhornia crassipes and other plants for absorbing oil, grease and heavy metals – the Cooperative has turned the area into a thriving fish farm and nature park.

It also has a thriving timber industry and rejuvenated downtown area that includes several antique and gift shops, a cafe, and a bed and breakfast.

The centrally located Vista Park and its adjacent downtown area at one time comprised a thriving center of commerce.

The area soon became known as a thriving citrus ranching region, with " Quaker Brand " fruit being shipped all over the United States.

In the early 1920s the area was discovered by a group of landscape painters who laid the foundation of the art community which is still thriving to this day.

This development has since grown from a summer home area to a retirement community to a thriving neighborhood with year round families, boosting the once sleepy Groveland to a travel and vacation destination in its own right.

Getting sent the report to the officers of the organization, who decided to seek one more opinion by writing to the editor of the Florida Grower in Tampa, who replied that the area was safe for orange growing and that he could show them thriving groves close by ( Spring Lake ) and others to the west of the tract.

During the 1950's and 1960's, Hapeville was a thriving part of the Tri-City ( Hapeville, East Point, College Park ) area and it's post-WWII population supported three elementary schools ( Josephine Wells, North Avenue, and College Street ) and one high school.

Because of parking challenges in the downtown area, many thriving independent businesses can be found in convenient areas throughout the city where access for their customers is more centralized and parking is more abundant.

Once the home of a thriving barrel-making industry which depleted the nearby virgin forests Mill Shoals had primarily been an agriculture village until 1939 when oil was discovered in the area.

The largest commercial area in West Lafayette is the Wabash Landing / Levee area, which has become a thriving urban-type district since the entire area was reconstructed and the Pedestrian Bridge to Lafayette replaced the old State Street bridge.

The area was a thriving center of commerce, including cypress sawmills, animal trappers, shingle-making, farms, and a steamboat port.