When did the shopping center plan to open?

To finish today’s program, I want to tell you about the Waterside Shopping Centre, near Northport, which I visited last week. It’s taken three years to build and finally opened three weeks ago, two months later than planned.
     Firstly, getting there; there are organized coach trips from most towns in the area but they leave early and come home very late, so I drove. There are 12,000 free parking spaces, so parking is no problem. You can also get there by train, but the station is 15 minutes from Waterside by bus, and the buses are really crowded, so you some- times have a long wait.
     One thing to remember is that the shops don’t open till 10 a.m. except on Saturday when they open at 9. So don’t get there too early on a weekday. They close at 8 p.m. every day except Friday when they’re open until 9 p. m.
     The shopping centre is arranged on three levels. In fact, if you want to buy a pair of shoes, there are 15 different shops to choose from on levels one and two. When you run out of money, there are seven different banks, flat collect your money before you get to the third level as there aren’t any banks up there. On that level, however, there are several restaurants, as well as a cinema with seven screens.
     And so that’s all for today’s program.