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Aspley, Queensland

This shopping centre services the residents of Aspley, as well as surrounding suburbs of Carseldine, Zillmere, Chermside West, Taigum, Bridgeman Downs and Albany Creek.

Bandaraya LRT station

The station is also within close proximity of several shopping complexes, the present Kuala Lumpur City Hall building, the Bank Negara headquarters, and Little India Precinct.

Bethany Mooradian

From 2002-2006, Bethany taught Mystery Shopping classes through community education centers in the Detroit Metropolitan area using her book, Become a Mystery Shopper as the class textbook.

Carlingford Court

The shopping centre is within walking distance from Carlingford railway station, the terminus of the Carlingford Line of the Sydney Trains network.

Carrer de Pelai, Barcelona

It's the border between the central districts of Ciutat Vella and Eixample, and runs from the intersection of Plaça de Catalunya with La Rambla and the El Triangle shopping centre, to Plaça de la Universitat.

Central Street

Central Street (Evanston, IL), a major east-west road and shopping district in Evanston, Illinois

CentralPlaza Grand Rama IX

Central Plaza Grand Rama 9 is a shopping mall on Rama 9 Road in Huai Khwang, Bangkok.

Channel M

The channel was originally based at smaller studios in the Triangle shopping mall and the later at the Printworks entertainment complex in Manchester city centre, until Channel M moved to the former Urbis museum in August 2005.

Christmas club

The concept is that bank customers deposit a set amount of money each week into a special savings account, and receive the money back at the end of the year for Christmas shopping.

County Square

On 20 March 2007, County Square opened its new extended shopping mall to accommodate its new anchor store Debenhams, as well as stores such as New Look, Jane Norman, H&M, Next, River Island and Waterstones.

Crossroads Mall

Crossroads Mall (West Virginia), a shopping mall near Beckley, West Virginia, owned by Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

Demirören Group

Its properties include Milangaz (a liquefied petroleum gas distributor with 15% of the Turkish market), the Demirören İstiklal shopping mall in Beyoğlu, and the Milliyet and Vatan newspapers.

Dharshan Munidasa

In December 2011, Munidasa in collaboration with close friends, Sri Lankan Cricketing Legends Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara opened the Ministry of Crab, housed in the recently refurbished 400-year-old ‘Old Dutch Hospital’ Shopping Precinct.

El Mercado de Los Angeles

Built in 1961, El Mercado de Los Angeles is located in the heart of East Los Angeles on the corners of 1st St. and Lorena St. El Mercado is a popular three floor in door swap meet that offers dining and restaurant services, entertainment with live mariachi bands, and shopping from various vendors.

Euralille

The masterplan defined several distinct areas: a mixed-use precinct comprising a shopping mall named Triangle des Gares designed by Jean Nouvel, the TGV station designed by Jean-Marie Duthilleul with two office towers above by architects Christian de Portzamparc and Claude Vasconi, a park designed by Gilles Clément and a congress centre known as the Grand Palais designed by OMA.

Frankfurt Airport loop

A regional rail project called Regionaltangente West (regional tangent west) is being developed which would connect Neu-Isenburg with Bad Homburg and the NordWestZentrum shopping centre through the western fringes of Frankfurt.

Gediminas Avenue

It is also the place of cultural institutions such as Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Bank of Lithuania, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and Martynas Mažvydas National Library Nowadays it is also a popular shopping and dining street.

Heathmont, Victoria

The distant Mount Dandenong and Dandenong Ranges are visible from much of this shopping strip, offering a somewhat 'Californian' feel to the environment.

Henry Segerstrom

In March 1967, Segerstrom, along with his cousin Hal T. Segerstrom, Jr., opened a shopping center called South Coast Plaza in one of the family's lima bean fields in rapidly growing Orange County.

Imbi Monorail station

The Imbi station is also within a close range of several more shopping centres near Bukit Bintang (Star Hill), including the Low Yat Plaza, Imbi Plaza, Sungei Wang Plaza and BB Plaza.

Kimco Realty

Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) since 1991, and included in the S&P 500 Index, the company has specialized in shopping center acquisitions, development and management for more than 50 years.

Lechmere Square

The area is now best known for the CambridgeSide Galleria, one of the few full-fledged interior shopping malls within the city limits of Boston and Cambridge, which is on the site of the original Lechmere store (and, when built, incorporated a newly built Lechmere Sales store as one of its anchor tenants).

Leipziger Straße

Next to it Oscar Tietz (1858-1923) opened his first department store in 1900, financed by his uncle Hermann Tietz (Hertie), starting the development of Leipziger Straße into a major shopping street.

Lord Street

Lord Street, Liverpool, one of the streets in Liverpool, England, that forms the city's main shopping district

Minami-Ibaraki Station

The shopping area around the stations include a few convenience stores, a Seattle's Best Coffee store, a couple of supermarkets and a post office.

Moorfoot Building

It is located at the foot of The Moor (a pedestrianised shopping street), close to the Sheffield Inner Ring Road.

Multnomah University

The original campus was located adjacent to the site of the present Lloyd Center shopping mall in Northeast Portland.

New South China Mall

Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Sam Green made a short film about the South China Mall called "Utopia Part 3: the World's Largest Shopping Mall." The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS's documentary series POV.

Newmarket, Queensland

The shopping centre contains a Coles supermarket, post office, Commonwealth Bank of Australia branch, newsagent and several specialty stores.

No Census, No Feeling

This is a reference to an event in 1939 when Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving to an earlier Thursday in November to lengthen the Christmas shopping season.

Patio Bullrich

Patio Bullrich is an important shopping center in the Retiro section of Buenos Aires.

Pierre Hermé

In 1998, he started his own brand name Pierre Hermé Paris with a pastry boutique in Tokyo's New Otani Hotel, followed in July 2000 by a Salon de Thé in the Tokyo Disney shopping area Ikspiari.

Pioneer Square South and Pioneer Square North

Popular shopping areas include Portland's downtown Macy's and Nordstrom department stores.

Rogers Communications

Rogers Media owns Canada's largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications, 51 radio stations, television broadcasting with Omni Television, City, Sportsnet, Sportsnet One, Sportsnet World, Sportsnet 360, OLN, G4 Canada, RDeals and The Shopping Channel which is Canada's home shopping service.

Simei Estate

Simei has a 6-storey shopping mall that is undergoing renovation (called East Point Mall), where only NTUC FairPrice and NTUC Healthcare (Unity) still survives at a moment.

Skudai

The shopping centres that are in and within Skudai are Skudai Parade, AEON Taman Universiti, KIP Mart, Skudai Mall, The Store in Taman Ungku Tun Aminah, Sutera Mall in Taman Sutera Utama, U Mall in Taman Pulai Utama, Bestmart in Taman Nusa Bestari, Giant Hypermarket which along the Jalan Skudai.

Stonewood

Stonewood Center, a shopping mall located in Downey, California, United States

Stubben

More shopping and cultural activities are only 4 km away in Beverstedt, which is also easily accessible by bicycle.

Sump'n Else

The program broadcast live from NorthPark Center shopping mall in a storefront studio that featured a soundproof window so shoppers and fans could see the daily action.

Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon

It was sponsored by the Westfield Group, with the start being at Westfield Parramatta shopping centre and the finish at Westfield Doncaster shopping centre (formerly known as "Doncaster Shoppingtown").

Templars Square

By 1959, the proposal had received strong endorsement from Oxford City Council, and an embargo on new shopping developments along the nearby Cowley Road was enforced.

The Chimes, Uxbridge

The Chimes was used to film scenes for the Channel 4 television comedy The Inbetweeners, offering itself as a shooting location on just three days' notice after another shopping centre withdrew.

Thomastown, Victoria

Thomastown has a strip shopping centre in High Street parallel to the railway station, a shopping centre corner of Edgars Road and Main Street and shops on Settlement Road and Dalton Road, plus various shopping strips east of the train station.

Thorngumbald

The village shopping centre has five shops: a small Boots chemist, a newsagents, family butcher, fish and chip shop and a Spar Convenience store.

Tri-State Mall

The Tri-State Mall is a shopping mall located on Delaware Route 92 (locally known as "Naamans Road") in Claymont, Delaware.

Voždovac Stadium

The new stadium began construction in 2011 along with the establishment of a new shopping center in the Zaplanjska street in Voždovac.

Wendouree, Victoria

Landmarks of Wendouree include the Minerdome, the home of the Ballarat Miners and Ballarat Rush; the Ballarat Showgrounds, where the annual Ballarat Show is held; Eureka Stadium, which is the home ground of the North Ballarat VFL (Australian Football) club, and has hosted pre-season Australian Football League matches, the former St Mary's Redemptorist Monastery, Stockland Wendouree shopping centre, and the Wendouree Centre for the Performing Arts.

WLLQ

By 1978, WRBX had gone Southern gospel, increased its power to 10,000 watts and moved to studios on Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard (US 15/501) near present-day New Hope Commons Shopping Center.

WVPX-TV

Finally, in 1996, Paxson Communications – another company that specialized in home-shopping programs, though of the infomercial variety (and whose founder also launched the Home Shopping Network; although Paxson had owned a couple of major network affiliates years before, such as West Palm Beach, Florida ABC affiliate WPBF) – purchased WAKC.


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Idealo

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