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,
Marlands Shopping Centre Retail Group. Marlands Shopping Centre The Marlands Shopping Centre was opened on 5 September 1991. At the time, the Marlands Shopping Mall was the largest shopping centre in Southampton and the first significant shopping centre in the city (East Street Shopping Centre being well out of the way of the main shopping district hence never being very successful and the Bargate Centre being much smaller), however it is now dwarfed by WestQuay, which opened in 2000. The Marlands Shopping Centre was constructed to a postmodern design, which was described at the time of opening by one critic as looking like