 The area between Commercial Street and the river used to contain a mixture of railway lines and river wharves so the street pattern in this area was never fixed.On the removal of the railway lines and wharves in the 1960s the large John Frost Square (1977) and Kingsway Shopping Centre were built, close to Newport bus station.This area has been redeveloped to provide the Friars Walk shopping and leisure complex which was opened in November 2015.