The Bay Centre, formerly the Victoria Eaton Centre, is a shopping mall in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It is bounded by Douglas, Government, Fort, and View streets, in the city's historic centre. It has 39,114.8 square metres (410,264 square feet) of retail space. Opening in 1989, the mall was the first large shopping mall in Victoria's city centre. It occupies two city blocks of the Old Town area, including the site of the original downtown Eaton's store at 1150 Douglas Street,.