Shopping in Livingston

Livingston offers a unique shopping experience, with 2 major shopping centres, plus three large retail parks and a multitude of small local stores located throughout the town.

Almondvale Shopping Centre is a large enclosed, single level mall, in the heart of Livingston’s town centre.

As one of Scotland’s five new towns, Livingston was created in 1963. The first phase of Almondvale Shopping Centre was built in 1976 to facilitate the needs of this local population.

The shopping centre was refurbished in 1988 by Land Securities, and was extended by 230,000 sq. ft in 1996, creating phase 2 of the development, which brought the size of the mall to 550,000 sq . ft.

In 1999, substantial investment was made to revitalise the Centre through refurbishment, giving it an increasingly modern appearance.

As a new town, Livingston does not have a traditional High Street and so in effect, Almondvale Shopping is the town centre.

Nowadays, the Centre is a contemporary-styled, modern shopping complex, accommodating over 120 units. It has attracted many high street names including Asda Wal-Mart, Bhs, Gadget Shop, WH Smith, Mothercare, Woolworths, Argos, Next, HMV, JJB, Boots, Mackays, River Island, Powerhouse, JJB, and Safeway.

Livingston town centre has also seen other major development works in recent years, the most significant and unique of which is the Livingston Designer Outlet (formerly McArthur Glen Designer Outlet Livingston), which opened in October 2000 adjacent to the Almondvale Centre. This has complimented the existing retail offer and has attracted visitors from a much wider catchment area.

In addition, there are also 4 large retail parks in the town centre which house retailers such as MFI, Halfords, Currys, Land of Leather, TK Maxx and Pets at Home as well as a Homebase, Toys "R" Us and Marks & Spencer Simply Food.

There is also a large park containing a B&Q Warehouse and Morrisons Supermarket.

Shopping in Livingston is easy, with two big shopping complexes located next to each other, and a combined shopping experience of over 200 stores and numerous places to eat Livingston really is the place to come for Shopping.

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