A new shopping centre was part of the plan, ideally to replace the then recently closed Parkhead Forge plant of the Beardmore's steel works.

The main anchor tenant was a Gateway supermarket (at the time the largest in Scotland), but this changed over to Asda early in 1990 and has remained as such ever since.

The main entrances to the centre (on Duke Street and Gallowgate) feature distinctive glass pyramid designs.

[3] A second phase of the Forge Shopping Centre in the mid-1990s incorporated a new indoor market and bingo hall to the east of the initial site, and a retail park, operated by a separate company, to the west (the latter being built over part of the historic Camlachie neighbourhood).

The Forge has a range of shops including two anchor stores: Primark and Asda and a multiplex Cineworld cinema on site.