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
Orchard Park Shopping Centre Orchard Park Shopping Centre Orchard Park Shopping Centre is a regional shopping mall in Kelowna, British Columbia. It is the largest shopping mall in the Okanagan. It is located on the major provincial highway, Harvey Avenue (Highway 97), at the intersections of Cooper Road and Dilworth Drive, south of Dilworth Mountain. With over 170 shops and services, Orchard Park Shopping Centre is the largest shopping mall between Metro Vancouver and Calgary. Orchard Park opened September 28, 1971 on a former orchard. The original mall layout included anchors Simpsons-Sears and The Bay (although The Bay was not completed until 1972) and