Thorp Arch Retail Park
The Thorp Arch Retail Park is perhaps the most notable part for local people. It is set in semi-underground bunkers and many of the retailers have grassy banks up the exterior walls. The retail park houses Brooks Discount Retailers, DFS (formerly Northern Upholstery), Empire Direct (formerly Miller Brothers), The Sofa Centre, The Greenery Garden Centre, a car showroom and a cafe.
The retail park once had a branch of Texas Homecare, however due to the small size of these units, it was necessary to set the shop across two units set several hundred yards apart. This did not keep in with the clean-cut, purpose-built style of the new Texas branches, and so they were closed; and the Texas Homecare chain no longer exists. The retail park also formerly housed Bargain Street (a now defunct West Yorkshire discount clothes and household good retailer).
During the 2008-2009 UK retail crisis, two retail chains on the park closed, these being Land of Leather and Empire Direct.
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