Derbion
The Eagle Centre is a large indoor shopping centre in centre of Derby, UK jointly owned by The Westfield Group and Hermes Property Asset Management. It consists of 51,559 m² (554,981 ft²) of retail space (though this is to increase to over 100,000 m² (1,000,000 ft²) by 2008) and attracts 19,000,000 shoppers a year.
The centre opened in 1975 and contains around seventy 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.
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.
A large extension to the centre is currently being 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, due to be completed in 2008, will double the size of the centre. As well as adding many new shops, the extension will also house an 800-seat foodcourt, a twelve-screen Cinema de Lux and even more car parking facilities. Many retailers have already agreed to occupy outlets in the extension, including many who intend to close their existing Derby stores and relocate. 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.