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Power center (retail)
Shopping center over 250,000 square feet anchored by big box stores / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about shopping centers in North America with 250,000–600,000 sq.ft. of floor area, anchored by big-box stores. For the equivalent in Europe, see retail park.
A power center[1][2] or big-box center (known in Canadian and Commonwealth English as power centre or big-box centre) is a shopping center with typically 250,000 to 600,000 square feet (23,000 to 56,000 m2) of gross leasable area[2] that usually contains three or more big box anchor tenants and various smaller retailers,[1] where the anchors occupy 75–90% of the total area.[3][4]
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