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A business park or office park is an area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together. The first office park opened in Mountain Brook, Alabama, in the early 1950s to avoid racial tension in city centers. Business parks are often developed in suburban locations where land and building costs are cheaper.

A buying center, also called decision-making unit ( DMU ), brings together "all those members of an organization who become involved in the buying process for a particular product or service". The concept of a DMU was developed in 1967 by Robinson, Farris and Wind (1967).

An outlet center (or outlet mall in North America) is a type of shopping center in which manufacturers sell their products directly to the public through their own stores. Other stores in outlet centers are operated by retailers selling returned goods and discontinued products, often at heavily reduced prices.

A center of excellence ( COE ), also called excellence center, is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership, best practices, research, support and/or training for a focus area. Due to its broad usage and vague legal precedent, a "center of excellence" in one context may have completely different characteristics from another.

A profit center is a part of a business which is expected to make an identifiable contribution to the organization's profits . Overview A profit center is a section of a company treated as a separate business. Thus profits or losses for a profit center are calculated separately.