Neighborhood shopping center

[2] In Europe, any shopping center with mostly "retail warehouse units" (UK terminology; in the US these are called "big box stores" or superstores), 5000 sqm or larger, 53,819 sq.

[3][4] Therefore, some neighborhood shopping centers in the United States might be considered "retail parks" in Europe, depending on the tenant mix.

During the 1930s the neighborhood center not only emerged as an important element of the retail landscape in the United States, but also became one of the first common building forms to be adapted for the society's widespread adoption of the automobile.

Uniquely for the time, it had multiple national grocery store tenants Kroger, Piggly Wiggly, and the A&P Tea Company.

It was anchored by Piggly Wiggly and built in an L shape with dedicated parking space for shoppers in the front, a novelty at the time.

A neighborhood shopping center catering to Vietnamese Americans in Little Saigon, Philadelphia
Lake City Center in Seattle, at 51,050 square feet (4,743 m 2 ) [ 1 ] qualifies as a small neighborhood shopping center. It is anchored by a supermarket.
The Park & Shop in Cleveland Park, Washington, D.C. (1930) is one of the earliest examples of a small center with dedicated on-site parking in front.