MetroCentre (shopping centre) Annan and Kilmarnock. Metrocentre has its own junction on the A1 road and northbound this road was widened to three lanes after the centre was built to cope with increased traffic levels. Even so, the centre is responsible for many journeys on the A1, a road through Gateshead which suffers from significant congestion at peak times. However a major widening of this stretch of the A1 was completed in June 2016 MetroCentre (shopping centre) intu Metrocentre, formerly MetroCentre and known on road signs as Metro Centre, is a shopping centre in Dunston Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Located in Dunston,
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