Östersund concentrated to the shopping and pedestrian street Prästgatan where large local shopping malls such as "Kärnan" and "Mittpunkten" along with department stores such as Åhléns are located. Large clothing companies such as H&M, Lindex and smaller like WESC, approximately 50 restaurants, shoe stores, sporting goods retailers like Stadium and Intersport, several supermarkets (Östersund has rather few convenience stores), etc. Storgatan, the street that runs parallel with Prästgatan is also lined with shops, restaurants and coffeehouses. Unlike Prästgatan this street is not a pedestrian street. Östersund is the city in Sweden with the most square metres of window display per capita.
Junius H. Rose High School Middle School beginning with the 1999–2000 school year and stayed until being transferred to C. M. Eppes Middle School (located on the former South Elm Street campus of Rose High) in 2004, where he will have served six years upon the commencement of his principalship at Rose. In 2004, Langley was named Pitt County Schools’ Principal of the Year. All of Rose's known principals are presented here in chronological order. Clarification is needed of dates and names from the end of Dowd's administration to the end of Davenport's administration and the beginning of Hurt's: The J H Rose High School