The regional shopping centre provides a full range of shopping services comparable to those found in a small central business district. It is built around at least one full-size department store and often several; specialty shops and boutiques are numerous, and there are usually several restaurants and perhaps a motion-picture theatre.

A large enclosed shopping mall having several national and regional retails stores acting as anchor tenants. The enclosed floor area of regional shopping centers ranges between 250,000 and 1,000,000 sq. ft. and are located in urbanized areas having a population of at least 250,000 people. They have a very large parking area.

a major retail shopping complex serving a distinct geographic area of a city or state, housing at least one major full-line department store and a number of other retailers and service providers.

Regional shopping centers means an integrated planned shopping area designed with a single architectural scheme and with appropriate common landscaping containing a minimum of one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet of ground area and containing a minimum of ten independent commercial stores.