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The Eagle Centre is a large indoor shopping centre in centre of Derby, UK jointly owned by Westfield and Hermes, with Derby City Council directly owning the indoor market. It currently consists of 51,559 m² (554,981 ft²) of retail space and attracts 19,000,000 shoppers a year.

Overview

The Eagle Centre contains around 55 shops, several eateries, the UK's largest indoor market and Derby Playhouse. It has two car parks and is a few minutes' walk away from both Derby's bus and railway stations.

The centre opened on November 20 1975 at a cost of £7,000,000. Several streets of terraced housing built in the early 1820s were demolished to make way for the new centre, including a street called Eagle Street, hence the name of the new development. The centre's market was rebuilt in 1990 and the entire centre was refurbished in 1999.

Extension

A large extension to the centre was constructed on the former site of the Castlefields Main Centre (a decaying outdoor shopping centre adjacent to the Eagle Centre, also owned by Westfield). The extension, was completed in October 2007, it doubled the size of the centre to over 100,000 m² (1,000,000 ft²). As well as adding many new shops, the extension houses an 800-seat foodcourt, a twelve-screen Cinema de Lux (opening Spring 2008) and even more car parking facilities. This has led to fears that Derby city centre may become a ghost town, with nearly all the shops housed in the expanded Eagle Centre.

The new Westfield Derby shopping Centre opened on October 9th 2007 and has proved very popular. If you have broadband then take a look around here : Derby Westfield Centre.

Renaming

On November 30 2006, a report in the Derby Evening Telegraph stated that Westfield and Hermes are to rename the Eagle Centre 'Westfield Derby' (in line with other Westfield shopping centres) some time before the opening of the extension, confirming the suspicions held by many.

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