Eastland Shopping Centre is a super-regional shopping centre located in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Ringwood, Victoria, Australia, which first opened on 31 October 1967. It is adjacent to Ringwood railway station on Maroondah Highway and serviced by several bus routes. The centre features two main levels of shops, with a third level containing a Hoyts 12-screen cinema complex and restaurants, forming a total of approximately 530 stores. Eastland also contains a library, 120 room hotel and large outdoor dining precinct called Ringwood Town Square. It is the largest shopping centre in the City of Maroondah and is located in relatively close proximity to Westfield Doncaster and Westfield Knox. History Construction commenced on the two-level enclosed complex in July 1966, with a Myer and a Safeway supermarket and variety store as major anchors, along with 40 speciality stores and a 1200 space car park. The initial centre cost $13,000,000 (1966) ($167,568,115.94 (2017)) to construct, on a parcel of land just north of the Maroondah Highway in the heart of Ringwood. In 1993 a massive redevelopment of the centre was announced, which involved the demolition of the existing centre in its entirety except for the 4-storey Myer building (which was simply refurbished), and after a series of three staged openings culminated in the relaunch of a new look Eastland in May, 1995. This extension brought the centre to with major retailers Myer, Safeway and Kmart and 170 specialty retailers. In 1996 the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) purchased the centre from Coles Myer. Stage 4 Expansion In early 2001, after years of rumours and consumer desire for cinemas in Ringwood, QIC announced plans for a stage 4 expansion. Key to this expansion was a Hoyts 12 screen cinema complex (down from the originally planned 14), a few restaurants (including a Pancake Parlour), a Big W store, and a 2nd major supermarket, which at the time was scheduled to be a Bi-Lo Mega Fresh store (but only a regular Bi-Lo store was built), and an additional 50 specialty stores, increasing the centre's retail size by approximately . Big W and Bi-Lo opened in late October 2002, along with a handful of the 50 specialty stores. The cinemas opened on 26 December 2002. Eastland Expansion 2015-2016 (Stage 5) Expansion rumours persisted for years, with initial plans including a large 3-level expansion, connecting the Hoyts end with Maroondah Highway, providing a new entrance to the