Talk:Retail park

message: Shoppers World (Framingham) says that mall is a power center that opened in 1951. -- Beland 23:20, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: *Well, there is clearly little or no interest in making such a move at this time, so I will close the discussion and archive it. A redirect from "Power center" to Power centre wil suffice. Edison 18:58, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Move to [[Power center]]

message: Having one article at power center and another at power centre is silly and confusing. I'm going to move this to power centre (retail) (keeing the "re" spelling in deference to WP:MOS) and the other one to power center (geometry). I'm going to put a disambig page at power center with a redirect there from power centre. -- Mwalcoff 03:04, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: On second thought, almost all of the links to power center are about shopping centers. I'll just redirect here and use a hatnote. -- Mwalcoff 03:10, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved them back, fixed incoming links, and improved the top disambiguating links. I don't think that parenthetical disambiguation is necessary when top disambiguating links will work just fine. WODUP 07:38, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is silly 

message: The article lists Puente Hills Mall, of the City of Inductry, CA, and Del Amo Fashion Center, of Torrence, CA as examples of malls that have been converted to power centers. This is not accurate. Both malls are still fully enclosed (which contradicts the definition of a power center at the start of the article), and feature full line department stores such as Macy's and Sears. Del Amo has added an outdoor "lifestyle" center, and Puente Hills does have a Circuit City, but that does not make a traditional indoor shopping mall a power center. Anyone else agree?
(75.50.101.192 22:31, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Del Amo and Puente Hills. Power Centers? 

message: It states: A power centre ... [has] 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2) to 750,000 square feet (70,000 m2) of gross leasable area. Yet South Edmonton Common has 2,300,000 square feet and is stated as being a power centre. Is there really a maximum size? 220.110.146.104 (talk) 06:14, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  SIZE? 

message: All, it seems like it has been hard to decide what to name this article, and doing more research I have concluded that these should not be in the same article. 
In Europe, any shopping center with mostly "retail warehouse units" (UK terminology; in the US we would say "big box stores"/superstores), 5000 sqm or larger, 53,819 sq. ft., is a retail park, according to the leading real estate company Cushman & Wakefield."DEVELOPMENT OF RETAIL PARKS ACCELERATES THROUGHOUT EUROPE", Across: the European Placemaking Magazine, August 23, 2016
In the U.S. this would fall into one of several categories:
*  - a power center - typically anchored by category-killer big box stores incl. discount department stores and wholesale clubs. 
* of gross leasable area - a neighborhood center - typically anchored by a supermarket - so really not the concept of a retail park anyway. (and in the U.S. we rarely have a center under 250,000 sq ft anchored by big box stores) 
There are of course variants such as
*Lifestyle center: Upscale national-chain specialty stores with dining and entertainment in an outdoor setting,  
*Festival marketplace: Leisure, tourist, retail and service-oriented offerings with entertaiment as a unifying theme,  
* Factory outlet,  
As such, what in Europe would be a retail park, would in the US be either a neighborhood center or a power center, and perhaps a lifestyle center (Manufaktura in Łódź comes to mind).
I think it makes a lot more sense to have both entries, and note in the retail park article the equivalent types in the U.S., and in the power center article the equivalent types in the U.K. and rest of Europe.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Keizers (talk • contribs) 21:44, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting article - retail parks in Europe are only  >5000 sqm, power centers in the US are >23,225 sqm