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The term "high street" assumed a different meaning, that of a street where the most important shops and businesses were located. [4] In Britain, the term 'high street' has both a generic and a specific meaning: people refer to 'shopping on the high street' both when they mean the main retail area, as well as the specific street of that name.
A shopping precinct (U.K. term) or pedestrian mall (U.S. term) is an area of city centre streets which have been pedestrianized, where there is a concentration of "high street shops" such as department stores, clothing and home furnishings stores, and so forth. [9]
A shopping street [1] or shopping district [2] is a designated road or quarter of a municipality that is composed of retail establishments (such as stores, boutiques, restaurants, and shopping complexes). Such areas may be pedestrian-oriented, [3] with street-side buildings and wide sidewalks.
High Street store is a term used widely in the United Kingdom where more than 5,000 High Streets where a variety of stores congregate along a main road [clarification needed]. [21] Stores situated in the High Street provide for the needs of a local community, and often give a locality a unique identity.
A retail park is a type of shopping centre found on the fringes of most large towns and cities in the United Kingdom and other European countries. They form a key aspect of European retail geographies, alongside indoor shopping centres, standalone stores like hypermarkets and more traditional high streets.
The Nebraska Crossing Outlets Mall (Gretna, Nebraska, 2004). An outlet store, factory outlet or factory store is a brick and mortar or online store where manufacturers sell their merchandise directly to the public.
Aerial view of the Financial District in Downtown Toronto Main Street in Chesterton, Indiana. Commercial area, commercial district or commercial zone in a city is an area, district, or neighborhoods primarily composed of commercial buildings, such as a strip mall, office parks, downtown, central business district, financial district, "Main Street", or shopping centers.
High Street, Oxford, 1810 oil painting by J. M. W. Turner; High Street, Cornwall, hamlet in England; High Street Phoenix, shopping mall in Mumbai, India; High Street Records, American record label; High Street School, Dunedin, former school in Dunedin, New Zealand; High Street tram stop, former Metrolink stop in Manchester, England