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Eagles Meadow is now a medium-sized shopping centre in central Wrexham. Previously this area has had a variety of uses over hundreds of years. Originally used as stables for local gentry it has now been developed into a major shopping centre. Eagles Meadow was originally lying on lower land than the surrounding area, this has changed with the new development. The opening of Eagles Meadow was Thursday 30 October 2008 at 10am. There was a carnival before the grand opening and events during the day.HistoryUsed as local gentry's stables.During World War II, the area was used as a Motor Pool for elements of the U.S. Army's 83rd Infantry Division.After the US Army withdrew its forces in Europe after the war, the buildings and treated surface they had created were ideal as a Horse Repository.In the early 1970s the land was divided between a large urban car park and a small retail development which included a new Asda superstore. A fly-over bridge, nicknamed locally as the Asda fly-over, was constructed which carried the town's ring road between Smithfield Road and Salop Road. After these developments, the car park was used as the main weekly market in the town, which moved from St George's Crescent (the original 'Beast Market').Asda decided to move to a new site, so the store closed in September 2000, and was replaced by a much larger new superstore further down the ring-road in Maesydre. The weekly market moved to a new location at the Waterworld car park.A number of proposals were put forward for re-development of this land (which is close to St. Giles Church). Firstly John Lewis signed up to anchor a retail based development, which included a number of other stores and a supermarket. This development fell through, and the current landowner and largest stakeholder Wrexham County Borough Council decided to put the land up for tender with a number of developers.