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Melbourne Central is a large shopping centre, office, and public transport hub in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The main tower is 211-metre (692 ft) high, making it one of the tallest buildings in Melbourne at the time it was built in 1991.
As of 2018 the centre had 35 [15] operating stores that included clothing, footwear and cosmetics outlets, as well as a food court. Key tenants include Swatch, Coach, Furla, The Kooples, Tag Heuer, Birkenstock, Bremont [16] and Leica. [17] UK department store Debenhams had an outlet in the shopping centre from October 2017 [18] until January 2020.
Collins Place is a large mixed-use complex in the Melbourne central business district, Victoria, Australia.Designed in about 1970 by IM Pei & Partners, and finally completed in 1981, it was Melbourne's first and Australia's largest mixed use project, including basement car-parking, a shopping plaza with professional suites, cinemas and a nightclub in the lower levels, and offices and a high ...
From 1911 to 1934, Melbourne businessman Sidney Myer acquired and constructed 10 buildings between Lonsdale and Bourke streets in the central city while establishing his Myer chain of department stores. The first new building was completed facing Bourke Street in 1914, and the 8-storey structure was named the "Myer's Emporium".
The term 'central business district', or 'CBD', was first used in the Report on a planning scheme for the central business area of the City of Melbourne by town planner E.F. Borrie, which was commissioned by the City of Melbourne, and published in 1964. The maps used in the report show the CBD as just the Hoddle Grid, plus the parallel streets ...
In June 2007, a consortium comprising the Myer family, Colonial First State and GIC Real Estate (Singapore) announced it would be purchasing Myer's Melbourne CBD store. The Bourke Street part of the store was planned to be redeveloped by 2009, with Myer taking a 60-year lease, [26] but the development was not completed until March 2011. [27]
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Swanston Street is a major thoroughfare in the Melbourne central business district, Victoria, Australia.It was laid out in 1837 as part of the original Hoddle Grid.The street vertically bisects Melbourne's city centre and is famous as the world's busiest tram corridor, for its heritage buildings and as a shopping strip.