Eldon Square Shopping Centre

Eldon Square
	Eldon Square's main entrance on Northumberland Street
Location	Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Coordinates	54°58′31″N 1°36′54″W / 54.9752°N 1.6151°W
Opening date	4 March 1976
Owner	XPE Group plc (60%); Newcastle City Council (40%); APAM/MAPP (management);
No. of stores and services	150
No. of anchor tenants	3 (Fenwick, John Lewis, Marks and Spencer)
Total retail floor area	130,100 square metres (1,400,000 sq ft)
No. of floors	2
Parking	497 spaces: Eldon Square ; 445 spaces: Eldon Garden ;
Public transit access	Eldon Square bus station ; Haymarket bus station; Haymarket Metro station ; Monument Metro station ;
Website	eldonsquare.co.uk

Eldon Square (stylised as EldonSq.) is a shopping centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It opened in 1976 and was built on the site of Old Eldon Square, a famous part of Georgian Newcastle designed by John Dobson in about 1824.^[1] This redevelopment, which left only the eastern terrace standing, has been criticised, with one writer calling it "the greatest single example of architectural vandalism in Britain since the war".^[2]

When the centre opened it was the largest city-centre shopping centre in the UK.^[1] In 2013 it was rebranded as Intu Eldon Square.^[3] In 2020, the centre returned to its original name following the collapse of Intu.

^ ^a ^b Morton, David (4 March 2017). "How Newcastle's Eldon Square shopping centre opened on this day in 1976". Evening Chronicle. Newcastle upon Tyne: Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
^ Cite error: The named reference spectator1978 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Craggs, Francesca (25 November 2013). "Phil Steele, General Manager of intu Eldon Square". The Journal. Newcastle upon Tyne: Trinity Mirror. ISSN 0307-3645. Archived from the original on 27 November 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2018. Recently rebranded intu Eldon Square is gearing up for its busiest period of the year.

[Morton_2017-1] Morton, David (4 March 2017). "How Newcastle's Eldon Square shopping centre opened on this day in 1976". Evening Chronicle. Newcastle upon Tyne: Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 9 November 2018.

[spectator1978-2] Cite error: The named reference spectator1978 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[3] Craggs, Francesca (25 November 2013). "Phil Steele, General Manager of intu Eldon Square". The Journal. Newcastle upon Tyne: Trinity Mirror. ISSN 0307-3645. Archived from the original on 27 November 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2018. Recently rebranded intu Eldon Square is gearing up for its busiest period of the year.

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