Foyleside Shopping Centre

The project to build a shopping centre in the North West of Northern Ireland which would become Foyleside was envisioned in 1988 as part of a powerful regeneration campaign for the City of Derry. It was the result of campaigning by local politicians to attract the attention and investment of private firms. According to a local newspaper article in 1995 Northern Ireland Minister Richard Needham had convinced Marks & Spencer to co-anchor the centre project alongside Dunnes Stores. MP John Hume in the same article also voices praise on the economic benefits such as the employment that the new centre would bring and its effort in improving the image of the city and the North Wests image of a…

The centre is a four level building constructed over numerous former streets made possible by the steep geography of the banks of the River Foyle which is characteristic of Derry. The centre is over 34,400 square metres (370,000 square feet) in size. A glass dome above the central atrium of the mall serves as a focal point. A custom built Kone glass elevator is the centrepiece and originally overlooked a water fountain which was removed in 2016.