Town centre development of indoor shopping malls in major towns and cities. Examples include the Manchester Arndale Centre, the St. James Centre in Edinburgh and the Bullring Centre in Birmingham. They tended to be constructed in a Brutalist or Modernist fashion reflecting the architectural styles of the period. During the Thatcher government of the 1980s, a change in planning policy allowed competing out-of-town shopping and leisure centres to be developed. Examples include the Metro Centre in Gateshead, the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Dudley, and the Gyle Centre in Edinburgh. Developments of this type have, in a number of places, resulted in
Itis shopping centre Its anchor tenants are Stockmann, S-market, Lidl, Halonen, Tokmanni and H&M. The shopping centre is divided into four sections: "Pasaasi"(1984), "Pikku-Bulevardi", "Bulevardi"(1992), and "Piazza"(2001). It has five floors, with the shops and other commercial services mainly concentrated on the first and second floors. The other floors are reserved mainly for parking and office space. The shopping centre was built in three stages. The part now known as "Pasaasi" was completed in 1984 under the name "Itämarket" ('eastern market'), complete with the metro station and 41 shops. The new shopping centre proved successful, and an extension with 160 more shops (now