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.
M. H. Gunaratne M. H. Gunaratne Brigadier M. H. Gunaratne, VSV, psc, SLAC (1930 - ) was a Sri Lankan military officer, former Commander Security Forces Headquarters - East (SF HQ (E)), Commander, Task Force I and Task Force III and Commandant, Army Training Centre Educated at St Peter's College, Colombo, Royal College, Colombo and graduated from the University of Ceylon. Gunaratne joined the army was commissioned into the Sri Lanka Armoured Corps in 1957 as a Second Lieutenant. Serving with the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment as a Troop Leader he went on the serve as a Military Liaison Officer of the Ministry of