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Emporium Melbourne (or simply Emporium) is a luxury shopping centre on the corner of Lonsdale and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Australia. Occupying the former Lonsdale Street site of Myer 's Melbourne store, Emporium opened in 2014 following extensive redevelopment.
The Myer retail group was founded by Sidney Myer, who migrated from Belarus to Melbourne in 1899 after the height of Victoria's gold rush, with very little money and little knowledge of English to join his elder brother, Elcon Myer (1875–1938), who had left Russia two years earlier.
David Neng Hwan Wang (12 February 1920 – 1 January 1978), was a Chinese-Australian businessman and the first Chinese-Australian elected to the Melbourne City Council.. Wang was born in Haimen county, Jiangsu province, China, the son of a prosperous peasant farmer, and studied radio communications in Shanghai before entering the military academy in Chongqing (Chungking), (then the temporary ...
Melbourne Central, housing a railway station and shopping centre, opened on Lonsdale Street in 1991. It is a prominent feature of Melbourne due to its famous 1889 Coop's Shot Tower conical dome. [8] Melbourne Central connects by a pedestrian sky bridge over Lonsdale Street to the Emporium centre.
Sidney and Elcon Myer both worked in Slutzkin's underclothing business in Flinders Lane, Melbourne; later they established a small drapery shop in Bendigo.This proving to be quite successful, Myer took his goods, stockings, laces, etc., from door to door, and, in spite of knowing little English, sold his wares.
Vallejo Gantner (1911–1996) on 8 August 1941 in Toorak, Melbourne, [9] and later divorced. [10] Neilma is a co-founder of The Gantner Myer Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art, which was assembled over a four-year period by curator Jennifer Isaacs. The collection was unveiled in San Francisco in September 1999.
Emporium (Oregon-based department store), a defunct retailer in five western US states; The Emporium, Leicestershire, a nightclub in Coalville, Leicestershire, UK; Emporium Mall, in Lahore, Pakistan; Emporium Mall Pluit, in Pluit, Jakarta, Indonesia; Emporium Melbourne, a shopping centre in Australia
Cole was born at Woodchurch, Kent, England, to Harriet Cole, on 4 January 1832.Harriet's husband, Amos Cole, was on the hulks in Plymouth at the time of Edward's conception and therefore Amos could not be Edward's father, whose identity remains unknown. [3]