Eastgate Shopping Centre, Johannesburg

Eastgate Shopping Centre is a super-regional shopping centre in Bedfordview, near Bedford Gardens and the Johannesburg city centre in Gauteng.

Eastgate Shopping Centre
LocationBraford Road Bedfordview, Ekurhuleni, South Africa
Coordinates26°10′47″S 28°6′59″E
Address43 Bradford Road, Bedfordview, Ekurhuleni
ManagementLiberty Properties
OwnerLiberty Holdings Limited
Websitewww.eastgateshops.com

History

Eastgate was Johannesburg's first 'super-regional' shopping centre. When it opened in 1979, it was the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere. It remains one of the largest centres in the country, and is the third largest shopping centre in the Gauteng, after Sandton City , and Menlyn Park. The centre lies next to the R24 airport freeway, between the Johannesburg CBD and O. R. Tambo International Airport.

Stores include Woolworths, Edgars, Checkers Hyper, Ster-Kinekor cinemas and Game. A R300,000,000 expansion was completed in 2010, which brings Eastgate to over 121,000 m2 (1,300,000 sq ft). A few years later, the centre underwent another major redevelopment by Liberty Life to modernise both the retail and office components, which was completed in 2017. To this day, it is managed by Liberty Properties on behalf of the parent company, Liberty Holdings Limited.[1][2] The centre now is over 141,000 m2 (1,520,000 sq ft).

Eastgate Shopping Centre is frequented by over 80,000 shoppers on Saturdays and over 2 million shoppers during an average month. The shopping centre offers Bureau de change facilities. Major retailers include one of the most successful Woolworths in South Africa and a recently refurbished cinema complex.[3] The centre has over 250 stores, which include more than 60 fashion boutiques and 13 jewellers.

Unusual for a single complex, the building straddled the municipal boundaries of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. However, in 2013, the boundary was adjusted by the Municipal Demarcation Board to move Eastgate fully into Ekurhuleni.

Notes
  1. Eastgate Archived November 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Eastgate Shopping Centre". Liberty two°degrees. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  3. "Eastgate Shopping Centre – Gauteng Tourism Authority". www.gauteng.net. Retrieved 2019-04-26.


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