Editing Zoetermeer (section)

=== Centrum (1978) <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.zoetermeer.nl/centrum | title=Centrum | publisher=Gemeente Zoetermeer | access-date=28 November 2023}}</ref>===
The construction of a new centre of Zoetermeer actually started only in 1981, to serve as a shopping and administrative heart of the city. It followed modern [[urban planning]] principles, placing parking garages, some storage facilities and a RandstadRail station on the ground level, which is covered by pedestrian- and bicycle-only area with shops on the lower floors and apartments above them, to ensure the centre does not die out outside of the business hours.

The centre was completed in phases, the last one being the  Cadenza residential development in 2017. The Stadscentrum has two RandstadRail stations. The Centrum-West station is the terminus of RandstadRail line 3 and is the locations of Zoetermeer's busiest  [[bus station]]. The Stadscentrum includes the modern town hall of Zoetermeer and the local police station. A small lake called ''Grote Dobbe'' is placed directly in between Stadscentrum and Dorp, with the promenades and bicycle paths along the lake connecting the old and the new centres of Zoetermeer.  The postcode for Stadscentrum is 2711.