Foyleside Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Derry, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

. It is Northern Ireland's largest shopping centre and won the NIRSC "Best Shopping centre in Northern Ireland" award. Construction started in the early 1990s and the centre opened in 1995. The shopping centre's purpose was to offer a hub for shopping in the North West of Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

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The shopping centre is built into the centre of the city and although it is not on the bank, it does overlook the river Foyle

River Foyle

The River Foyle is a river in west Ulster in the northwest of Ireland, which flows from the confluence of the rivers Finn and Mourne at the towns of Lifford in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, and Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. From here it flows to the City of Derry, where it...

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Future

Recently it was announced that developers have approached Derry City Council with the intention of developing a new Foyleside block which would include an extra 235,000 square footage of retail space, as well as a nine screen cinema and 67000 square feet (6,224.5 m²) of office space. This has the potential to create 500 construction jobs and 300 permanent jobs if allowed to proceed. This development would cost in the region of £100 million. Further to this Minister for Regional Development

Department for Regional Development

The Department for Regional Development is a devolved Northern Ireland government department in the Northern Ireland Executive...

, Conor Murphy

Conor Murphy

Conor Terence Murphy is an Irish republican Sinn Féin politician.According to An Phoblacht, Murphy first became involved with the Irish Republican Army during the 1981 hunger strikes...

 has hinted that he would welcome any plans for the relocation of the current train station

Londonderry railway station

Londonderry/Derry Railway Station, known commonly as Waterside Railway Station, serves the city of Derry in Northern Ireland. The station is also used by residents of the west of County Londonderry, much of west Tyrone and County Donegal. It is operated by Northern Ireland Railways...

 to the east bank of the Peace Bridge, which officially opened on Saturday 25th June 2011 This would mean that travellers by rail coming to the city would be linked quick ly with Foyleside and the surrounding area.

Shops

There are currently over 40 different stores. They are listed alphabetically below with the type of goods they sell.

• Adams  [Children's Clothing]
• Barratts [Shoes]
• Birthdays
  Birthdays (retailer)
  Birthdays is a British High Street greeting cards retailer. From its beginning in 1966, Ron Wood Greeting Cards operated as a wholesaler of greeting cards and gift wrap in Bury, Greater Manchester. In the mid 1970s three card shops were opened and soon the number had increased to thirty...
  
   [Cards]
• Boots [Cosmetics]
• Bureau de Change
  Bureau de Change
  A bureau de change or currency exchange is a business whose customers exchange one currency for another. Although originally French, the term bureau de change is widely used throughout Europe, and European travellers can usually easily identify these facilities when in other European countries...
  
   [Foreign Exchange]
• Burton
  Burton (clothes retailer)
  Burton is a large United Kingdom high street clothing retailer. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but is now part of the Arcadia Group.-History:...
  
   [Men's Fashion]
• Clarks
  C&J Clark
  C. and J. Clark International Ltd, trading as Clarks, is a British, international shoe manufacturer and retailer based in Street, Somerset, England...
  
   [Shoes]
• Clinton Cards
  Clinton Cards
  Clinton Cards is a chain of stores in the UK founded in 1968 by Don Lewin. Mostly selling greeting cards, as the name suggests, the chain claims to be "the largest specialist retailer of greetings cards, plush merchandise and related products in the UK with over 700 shops." They used to be...
  
   [Cards]
• Costa Coffee
  Costa Coffee
  Costa Coffee is a British coffeehouse company founded in 1971 by Italian brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa, as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and specialist Italian coffee shops. Since 1995 it has been a subsidiary of Whitbread, since when the company has grown to over...
  
   [Coffee Shop]
• Debenhams
  Debenhams
  Debenhams plc is a British retailer operating under a department store format in the UK, Ireland and Denmark, and franchise stores in other countries. The Company was founded in the eighteenth century as a single store in London and has now grown to around 160 shops...
  
   [Department Store]
• DV8
  DV8
  DV8 is a comic book published by Wildstorm. The series revolves around the lives of a group of Gen-Active people , initially living in New York under the supervision of Ivana Baiul, who sends them on life-threatening black ops assignments.-Publication history:The series lasted 32 issues, and was a...
  
   (clothes retailer)
• Dorothy Perkins
  Dorothy Perkins
  Dorothy Perkins, whose trading name was inspired by a rambler rose of the same name, is a large British women's clothing retailer, active mostly in the United Kingdom.- History :...
  
   [Women’s Fashion]

• Dunnes Stores
  Dunnes Stores
  Dunnes Stores, also known as Dunnes, is a supermarket and clothing retail chain, that is based in Dublin, Ireland.The chain primarily sells food, clothes and household wares. In addition to its main customer base in Ireland, the chain has operations in Great Britain and Spain...
  
   [Department Store]
• Early Learning Centre
  Early Learning Centre
  The Early Learning Centre is a British chain of shops selling toys for very young children.-History:Originally set up as a mail order company in 1974 and was always based near Swindon; by 1980 it had ten shops; and it has grown to include 215 shops in the UK and over 80 in 19 other countries such...
  
   [Children]
• Easons [Newsagents/Book store]
• Evans
  Evans (clothing retailer)
  Evans is a women's clothing retailer located in the United Kingdom and Ireland. They have over 300 stores around the UK selling plus-size clothing, lingerie, wide fitting shoes, swimwear and accessories.- Timeline :...
  
   [Women’s Fashion]
• Fosters [Women’s Fashion]
• GameS top [Computer Gaming]
• Going Places [Travel Agents]
• H. Samuel
  H. Samuel
  H. Samuel is a mass-market jewellery chain, operating in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It is the number one middle mass-market jewellery store in the United Kingdom. There are 375 stores as at 23rd Feb 2008. An increasing number of the chain's stores trade in a new format known...
  
   [Jewelry]
• Iceland
  Iceland (supermarket)
  Iceland is a supermarket chain in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Iceland's primary product lines include frozen foods, such as frozen prepared meals and frozen vegetables - hence the name of the company...
  
   [Super Market]
• Jessops [Photography]
• La Senza [Lingerie]
• Marks & Spencer
  Marks & Spencer
  Marks and Spencer plc is a British retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, with over 700 stores in the United Kingdom and over 300 stores spread across more than 40 countries. It specialises in the selling of clothing and luxury food products...
  
   [Department store]
• McDonalds [Fast food]
• Monsoon [Women's Fashion]
• Next
  Next (retailer)
  Next plc is a British retailer marketing clothing, footwear, accessories and home products with its headquarters in Enderby, Leicestershire, England. The company has over 550 stores throughout the UK and the Republic of Ireland, and 50 franchise branches in Europe, Asia and the Middle East...
  
   [Fashion]
• O'Briens Sandwich Bar
• Phones 4U
  Phones 4U
  Phones 4u is a large independent mobile phone retailer in the UK. It is part of the 4u Group based in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Since opening in 1996, it has expanded to over 550 stores throughout the United Kingdom. - Company Background :...
  
   [Phones]
• National Lottery
  National Lottery (United Kingdom)
  The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man.It is operated by Camelot Group, to whom the licence was granted in 1994, 2001 and again in 2007. The lottery is regulated by the National Lottery Commission, and was established by the then...
  
   Kiosk [Newsagents]
• River Island
  River Island
  River Island is one of Britain's best known high street fashion brands and can be found in most cities across the UK. The brand also has stores in Singapore, Turkey, Poland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the Middle East.-History:...
  
   [Men’s Fashion]
• Supermacs [Fast food Restaurant]
• Sweet Factory [Sweets]
• Starbucks
  Starbucks
  Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...
  
   [coffee shop]
• The Body Shop
  The Body Shop
  The Body Shop International plc, known as The Body Shop, has 2,400 stores in 61 countries, and is the second largest cosmetic franchise in the world, following O Boticario, a Brazilian company...
  
   [Cosmetics]
• The Card Shop [Cards]
• The Party Warehouse [Halloween Costumes]
• O2 Shop [Phones]
• The Orange Shop
  Orange SA
  Orange is the brand used by France Télécom for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider subsidiaries. It is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world, with 210 million customers . The brand was created in 1994 for Hutchison Telecom's UK mobile phone network, which was...
  
   [Phones]
• The Perfume Shop
  The Perfume Shop
  The Perfume Shop is a United Kingdom perfume retailer founded in 1992. The company was acquired by the world's largest health and beauty retailer, A.S. Watson Group in 2005. The company is based in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, with two distribution centres: one in Dunstable which serves The...
  
   [Perfume]
• Thorntons
  Thorntons
  Thorntons is a UK chocolate company established by Joseph William Thornton in 1911. Thorntons today is a £180 million turnover company with nearly 400 shops and cafes and around 200 franchises together with internet, mail order and commercial services...
  
   [Chocolates]
• TopShop
  Topshop
  Topshop is a British clothes retailer with shops in over 20 countries and online operations in a number of its markets. Its sales come primarily from women's clothing and fashion accessories...
  
   [Women’s fashion]
• TopMan
  Topman
  TOPMAN is the stand-alone fashion business counterpart of Topshop that caters exclusively to men’s clothing. A part of the Arcadia Group, which also owns Burton, Miss Selfridge, Wallis, Evans, British Home Stores and Dorothy Perkins, Topman has a chain of high-street men's clothing stores located...
  
   [Men's fashion]
• USC [Women’s fashion]
• Wallis
  Wallis (retailer)
  Wallis is a British women's clothing retailer. The brand operates from 134 stores and 126 concessions across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Wallis is a subsidiary of the Arcadia Group and one of the many companies under ownership of Philip Green, a British retailing icon.-History:The first store...
  
   [Women’s fashion]
• Yankee candle store [candles]