Portsmouth

This article is about the English city of Portsmouth. For other places with the same name, please see Portsmouth (disambiguation).

Shopping

In the last decade the number of shops in Portsmouth has grown dramatically due to both the buoyancy of the local economy and improved transport links.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Shopping areas in the city include:

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

• Ocean Retail Park is an out of town shopping area located on the north eastern side of Portsea Island off the A2030 leading to the A27. It is close to the site of the old Portsmouth Airport that closed in 1973. The retail park is composed of shops requiring large floor space for selling consumer goods (furniture, electrical goods, computers).
• Cascades Shopping Centre an indoor shopping centre built in the early nineties with approximately 75 shops covering a wide range of goods.
• Commercial Road running alongside the Cascades shopping centre this area contains approximately a further 50 shops, located near Portsmouth & Southsea train station.
• Gunwharf Quays a new shopping area which opened in 2002 in consists of 85 mainly upmarket fashion stores, restaurants and a Vue multi-screen cinema, located near Portsmouth Harbour train station and the Hard Bus Interchange, and a relatively short walk from Commercial Road.
• Bridge Centre a 11,043 square metre shopping centre built in 1988, now dominated by the newly built Asda Walmart store.

Other shopping areas with more than twenty shops include North End, Fratton Road, Palmerston Road, Elm Grove and Albert Road.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~