Eastborne Mall

Village BUR (Formerlly known as Eastborne Mall) is a shopping mall in Deheya, Burgdale's State. It first opened on September 9, 1967 as the Burgdale's State's very first shopping mall. The mall thrived Deheya's economy and gathered thousands of shoppers each month. The original anchors when the Eastborne Mall first opened were Top's 5 N Dime and Drugs, Lanny Lark, and Summer's Drug. It was expaned over the years and added new anchor stores including Sears, Burgdale Department Store, and Dawson's Emporia. It was the largest shopping center in the Burgdale Region until 1990 when the nearby Burgdale Pointe first opened. It struggled over the years until they announced that Eastborne Mall would be partially demolished and will turn into an open air shopping center known as Village BUR in early 2020. Today, the Village BUR is anchored by Marshall's, Furniture Industries, and Pay-Less Furniture.

History
Stephen Eastborne sold the former corn field on Highway 22 to build Burgdale's State's first shopping mall. In 1965, the former corn field broke ground and the mall was completed in 1967. The mall first opened on September 9, 1967 with their first anchor stores, Top's 5 N Dime and Drugs and Lanny Lark, and Summer's Drug. In 1970, the mall started a $4 million expansion and was completed in 1971. The expansion added 270,000-square-foot of retail space to the four year old shopping center, including the new two-level Sears store. Following the opening of the new Eastborne Mall store, Sears shuttered three nearby stores in downtown Deheya, Dullsville, and New Francis.

The mall was expanded even more in 1976 with two new anchor stores including Burgdale-based Burgdale Department Store, and Driftwood-based Dawson's Emporia. The expansion also included a two screen movie theater, the Eastborne Biplex. A freestanding Thrifty Drug store opened in 1980. The mall reached its peak in 1986 with 79 stores and services when Parkington Industries sold the mall to United Properties for $12 million. That same year, Burgdale Department Store shuttered all 30 stores, including the Eastborne Mall location. Burgdale Department Store sold two locations, including the store at the mall, to Zeph's. In 1989, the mall underwent a $1 million renovation.

Decline
In August 1990, the Burgdale Pointe mall opened in nearby Burgdale. Eastborne Mall lost its first anchor, when the Sears store shuttered its Eastborne Mall location to relocate to the new mall. The former Sears store was quickly refilled with the new ShopWay store, occupying the lower level with the upper level being used for the mall's storage. In 1993, the mall had over 65 retailers including four anchor stores, Dawson's Emporia, House of Clothing, ShopWay, and Woolworth. During the 1990s, Eastborne Mall lost three anchor stores including Thrifty Drugs (1996), Woolworth (1997), and House of Clothing (Late 1997). In 1998, Eastborne Mall was sold to Eastborne Holdings for $11 million. In late 1998, Eastborne Mall announced the $10 million renovation that was started in the Summer of the following year. The facelift of the struggling shopping center included new interiors, new storefronts, new flooring and lighting, and a new main enterance. There were also plans to include an upper level expansion of ShopWay, which had been used for the mall's storage, as well as the food court, but neither of those plans occurred. At that time, the mall added Outdoor Sports Emporium, and Jo-Ann Fabrics to fill the empty stores left by Woolworth, and Thrifty Drugs, respectively.

Despite the major renovations, the mall began losing more stores and customers. The mall's movie theater was shut down in 2001 after its owner, Metro Cinemas, relocated to a larger movie theater previously occupied by Mann Theatres. Short-lived anchor, Outdoor Sports Emporium left the mall abruptly in 2001, though it was replaced by Linens 'n Things in 2003.

In 2004, ShopWay, the mall's largest tenant, was closed after ShopWay filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Shortly after ShopWay's closure, Sports Authority and Marshall's were added to the mall, but neither store included interior mall enterances.

2008 Renovation
In 2006, the mall was sold to Gregory Capital Investments LLC and announced plans to remodel the 39-year-old mall and fill the long-vacant ShopWay anchor with a new department store. In 2008, TJ Maxx filled the front half of the former ShopWay space and added Steve & Barry's in the rear half of the former ShopWay space one month later, but closed in 2009 after Steve & Barry's went bankrupt. It was shortly replaced with Furniture Industries in late 2009. In 2010, Burlington Coat Factory opened in the former Linens 'n Things, which closed in 2008. In August 2010, The Sports Cinema Pub opened in the long-vacant Eastborne Metro Theatres building. That same year, Macy's, which previously operated as Dawson's Emporia until 2006, announced to shutter its Eastborne Mall location due to financial difficulties with the IRS and the town it was located in, or the Great Recession in 2008. In 2016, Sports Authority shuttered its store after the company went bankrupt.