95-551: 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. Other parts of the complex include the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, the underground Melbourne Central railway station and
190-540: A May Company California . Two of the largest shopping centers at the time were both in the San Fernando Valley , a suburban area of Los Angeles . They each consisted of one core open-air center and surrounding retail properties with various other owners, which would later hasten their decline as there wasn't a single owner, but rather a merchants' association, which was unable to react quickly to competition in later decades. Valley Plaza opened August 12, 1951. In
285-486: A shopping mall with leisure amenities oriented towards upscale consumers. Theme or festival centers have distinct unifying themes that are followed by their individual shops as well as their architecture. They are usually located in urban areas and cater to tourists. They typically feature a retail area of 80,000 to 250,000 square feet (7,400 to 23,200 m ). An outlet centre (or outlet mall in North America)
380-517: A town centre ) is typically larger with 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m ) to 800,000 sq ft (74,000 m ) gross leasable area with at least two anchor stores and offers a wider selection of stores. Given their wider service area, these tend to have higher-end stores ( department stores ) that need a larger area in order for their services to be profitable. Regional centres have tourist attractions, education and hospitality areas. Indoor centres are commonly called Shopping Malls in
475-435: A "shopping center". By the 1940s, the term "shopping center" implied — if not always a single owner — at least, a place sharing comprehensive design planning, including layout, signs, exterior lighting, and parking; and shared business planning that covered the target market, types of stores and store mix. The International Council of Shopping Centers classifies Asia-Pacific, European, U.S., and Canadian shopping centers into
570-468: A Cyclorama, incorporating a large circular hall that displayed 360° paintings of famous scenes, such as the 1871 Siege of Paris. After a complete renovation, it opened the Hostess Store, for all the homewear departments. Soon after the basement of the main store was refurbished as a menswear department. The store also had an art gallery, first between 1945-48, then a larger space opened in 1963, along with
665-492: A compendium of interviews with former staff and clients, was published in 2014. The store had such cachet that four books have been written about it. In 1979, journalist Keith Dunstan ’s The Store on the Hill was published to coincide with the store’s centenary the following year; in 2003, Behind Glass was published, written by former head of visual merchandising, Laurie Carew, with former model Diane Masters; in 2006, Still Here
760-560: A director, while William himself stayed on through into his 70s. The store managed to survive the Great Depression of the early 1930s. A renovation in 1933 reinstated the floors across the atrium. In 1934 the name changed to the simpler Georges, and in 1935 William George, still a part of the store aged 80, died. In 1936, Arthur John George, the son of a third George brother, who had grown up in Wellington New Zealand and become
855-424: A focal point and symbol of Melbourne Central itself. It is enclosed by a 80-metre (260 ft) high glass cone, built when the complex was constructed in 1991. It weighs 490 tonnes and has 924 glass panes. The cone is the largest of its kind in the world and was built in reference to the large dome of the adjacent State Library of Victoria . The glass panes are cleaned by a specially designed mechanical system. Upon
950-581: A hotel at the Swanston Street end, joined by a huge sloping walled atrium 20 floors high, over a shopping atrium opening down to the station platforms, designed by Hassell. The $ 1.2 billion contract was signed soon after but without Essington Limited, who were removed by the State Government after a number of directors were linked to the Nugan Hand Bank . It was also at this time that Kisho Kurokawa
1045-537: A number of modern features including central heating and cooling, a large outdoor parking area, semi-detached anchor stores, and restaurants. Later that year the world's first fully enclosed shopping mall was opened in Luleå , in northern Sweden (architect: Ralph Erskine ) and was named Shopping ; the region now claims the highest shopping center density in Europe. The idea of a regionally-sized, fully enclosed shopping complex
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#17328511102451140-481: A period when store hours were curtailed through labour laws. The new store was no longer a universal provider, instead specialising in women's wear and accessories. In the 1910s and 20s, there was much competition, with large and small department stores in the city and suburbs competing for custom; Georges maintained a position through basement sales, and firmly aiming at middle income and better off women. In 1930 Alfred George died, and William's son Douglas George became
1235-560: A primary trade area of 5 to 10 miles (8 to 16 km). A retail park , in the United Kingdom and Europe, is a type of shopping centre found on the fringes of most large towns and cities in the United Kingdom, and some (but not all) other European countries. In Europe, any shopping center with mostly "retail warehouse units" (UK terminology; in the US the term is " big-box stores "/superstores), 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft) or larger
1330-437: A reconstruction of the original Victorian shop windows. The new 'Georges' opened in 1998, but closed the following year. Since then various hospitality ventures have occupied the basement, retail has occupied the front ground floor section, and various businesses on the upper floors. From 2018 a major tenant was the co-working provider, Hub Australia. In the 2020s George's remains a well-remembered part of Melbourne's history by
1425-485: A retail area of 100,000 to 350,000 square feet (9,300 to 32,500 m ) and serve a primary area of 3 to 6 miles (5 to 10 km). Local-scale shopping centres usually have a retail area of 30,000 to 150,000 square feet (2,800 to 13,900 m ), and serve a primary area in a 3-mile (5 km) radius. They typically have a supermarket as an anchor or a large convenience shop and commonly serve large villages or as secondary centres to towns. Car-dependent centres in
1520-549: A shoe retailer, was appointed general manager. He re-introduced an old motto, Quod facimus, Valde facimus, (What we do - We do well), and ended the bargain basement sales. In 1937, Douglas George hired Reta Findlay, one of Australia's few women advertising executives, to run promotions, bringing a new sophistication and sense of exclusiveness to the store's advertising, window displays, and eventually their buying policies. A thorough internal renovation in 1938 involved all new counters and displays and an elegant curved double stair from
1615-860: A shopping centre for over half of the city's width or 5 city blocks, from La Trobe street to Little Collins Street. This occurs via Melbourne Central which joins to Myer which in turn joins to David Jones over Bourke Street Mall. The glass footbridge was closed when Myer Melbourne vacated their Lonsdale store building. The footbridge re-opened in April 2014 when the Emporium Melbourne shopping centre opened. Shopping centre A shopping center in American English , shopping centre in Commonwealth English (see spelling differences ), shopping complex , shopping arcade , shopping plaza , or galleria ,
1710-429: A twelve and a half metre, two tonne chain. This is no longer attached as it was removed during the centre's refurbishment in 2002 and not replaced. Every hour, on the hour, a marionette display drops down from the bottom of the watch with Australian galahs , cockatoos and two minstrels performing Waltzing Matilda , under the watchful gaze of some koalas . The Seiko branding has since been removed. A vertical garden
1805-525: A wider range of goods, from men's and women's clothing, underwear and hats, to children's toys, manchester, furniture, drugs, sweets, wines and spirits, and even coal and wood. In 1888, when financier Benjamin Fink bought the building, planning to replace it with an arcade, they bought the business of the Equitable Co-operative Store, located a block away, up a hill, and away from the retail heart of
1900-455: Is Strøget in Copenhagen, Denmark . In the U.S. chiefly in the 1960s, some cities converted a main shopping street (usually several blocks of one street only) to pedestrian zones known at the time as shopping malls (i.e. the original meaning of "mall": a "promenade"), but now referred to as pedestrian malls . A shopping arcade is a type of shopping precinct that developed earlier and in which
1995-405: Is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof. The first known collections of retailers under one roof are public markets , dating back to ancient times, and Middle Eastern covered markets, bazaars and souqs . In Paris, about 150 covered passages were built between the late 18th century and 1850, and a wealth of shopping arcades were built across Europe in the 19th century. In
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#17328511102452090-469: Is a retail park, according to the leading real estate company Cushman & Wakefield. This would be considered in North America either a power center or a neighborhood shopping center , depending on the size. A lifestyle center ( American English ), or lifestyle centre ( Commonwealth English ), is a shopping center or mixed-used commercial development that combines the traditional retail functions of
2185-820: Is a type of shopping center, a North American term originally meaning a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s began to be used as a generic term for large shopping centers anchored by department stores, especially enclosed centers. Many malls in the United States are currently in severe decline (" dead malls ") or have closed. Successful exceptions have added entertainment and experiential features, added big-box stores as anchor tenants, or are specialized formats: power centers , lifestyle centers , factory outlet centers, and festival marketplaces . Smaller types of shopping centers in North America include neighborhood shopping centers , and even smaller, strip malls . Pedestrian malls (shopping streets) in
2280-495: Is a type of shopping centre in which manufacturers sell their products directly to the public through their own stores. Other stores in outlet centres are operated by retailers selling returned goods and discontinued products, often at heavily reduced prices. Outlet stores were found as early as 1936, but the first multi-store outlet centre, Vanity Fair , located in Reading, Pennsylvania , did not open until 1974. Belz Enterprises opened
2375-615: Is not used in the U.K. The term "mall" is used for those types of centers in some markets beyond North America such as India and the United Arab Emirates . In other developing countries such as Namibia and Zambia , "Mall" is found in the names of many small centers that qualify as neighborhood shopping centers or strip malls according to the ICSC. The suburban shopping center concept evolved further with larger open-air shopping centers anchored by major department stores. The first
2470-481: Is over 800,000 sq ft (74,000 m ) of gross leasable area. These have three or more anchors, mass and varied merchant trade and serves as the dominant venue for the region (25 miles or 40 km) in which it is located. Note that ICSC defines indoor centers above 800,000 square feet (74,000 m ) net leasable area in Asia-Pacific as mega-malls . A regional-scale shopping centre (commonly known as
2565-457: The High Street (street – pedestrianized or not – with a high concentration of retail shops), and retail parks (usually out of the city centre, 5000 sq.m. or larger and anchored by big-box stores or supermarkets, rather than department stores). Most English-speakers follow a mix of the United Kingdom's and United States's naming conventions. In the U.K. a "centre for shopping" is commonly
2660-521: The Kumagai Gumi architecture firm at a cost of $ 1.2 billion. It has since been significantly renovated three times in 2001, 2005 and 2010. Today the centre features a gross leasable area of 55,100 square metres (593,000 sq ft) spread over six floors. The 20 storey glass conical structure over the Coop's Shot Tower is the largest of its kind in the world and over 8.6 million passengers pass through
2755-488: The traditional layout of the central city with small laneways and buildings was old-fashioned and not suited to a modern metropolis. This was reflected in the final design of the complex as a single building using almost an entire city block . As a result, four laneways and many other buildings were demolished to make way for the new structures. Although generally acknowledged as a successful design and development, several groups and individuals criticised certain aspects of
2850-787: The 13th century, these covered walkways housed shops, with storage and accommodation for traders on various levels. Different rows specialized in different goods, such as 'Bakers Row' or 'Fleshmongers Row'. Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg , which opened in 1785, may be regarded as one of the first purposely-built mall-type shopping complexes, as it consisted of more than 100 shops covering an area of over 53,000 m (570,000 sq ft). The Marché des Enfants Rouges in Paris opened in 1628 and still runs today. The Oxford Covered Market in Oxford , England opened in 1774 and still runs today. The Passage du Caire
2945-602: The 1890s. Historic and/or monumental buildings are sometimes converted into shopping centers, often forming part of a larger city center shopping district that otherwise consists mostly of on-street stores. Examples are the former main post office of Amsterdam, now Magna Plaza ; the Stadsfeestzaal [ nl ] in Antwerp , Belgium, a former exhibition "palace"; the former Sears warehouse, now Ponce City Market in Atlanta ;
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3040-444: The 1896 was the sale of bicycles, especially to women, with the top floor transformed into a 'cyclotorium', where they could learn to ride the newly improved devices. Following financial restructuring and the return of William George, the store underwent a major renovation in 1908, inserting a full-height atrium in the centre, and building extensive ‘walk-through’ show windows on Collins Street, to provide for window shoppers in
3135-533: The 19th-century Al-Hamidiyah Souq in Damascus , Syria , might also be considered as precursors to the present-day large shopping centers. Isfahan 's Grand Bazaar , which is largely covered, dates from the 10th century. The 10-kilometer-long, covered Tehran's Grand Bazaar also has a lengthy history. The oldest continuously occupied shopping mall in the world is likely to be the Chester Rows . Dating back at least to
3230-740: The George brothers when the store was still the Federal Emporium. In 1886, Powne gave notice that he would be leaving to start a drapery business in Clarendon Street, Melbourne. As a mark of esteem for Powne, the George brothers gave Powne a purse of sovereigns 'as a token of their respect and goodwill'. This kind act was perhaps so unusual, and the company so prominent, that it was reported in The Age on 14 September 1886. These sovereigns have been passed down through William Powne's children and beyond, with
3325-477: The Georges Invitation Art Prize, won in the first year by John Olsen ; the gallery was used for a wide range of exhibitions, from photography to ceramics, and embroidery to furniture. In January 1970, Georges launched a successful takeover bid of Ball & Welch in a deal valued at $ A1.48 million. The directors of Georges believed that Ball & Welch stores would give Georges a foothold in
3420-526: The Melbourne Central station every year. Originally termed the 'Victoria Project', large scale redevelopment of the city block bounded by Lonsdale, Swanston, La Trobe and Elizabeth Streets was studied in some detail during the 1960s and 1970s, being closely linked with work on the City Loop Early work on the site commenced in 1971 when land on the south side of La Trobe Street was acquired, to enable
3515-1044: The Myer store. An anchor tenant was also found, with Japanese department store Daimaru signed on over six floors of the shopping centre due to the involvement of the Japanese Sumitomo Bank on the project. Melbourne Central opened to great fanfare in 1991 with over 150 stores and the Daimaru anchor tenant attempting to compete with local, established department stores Myer , Georges and David Jones . The original six stores of retail were organised into five different areas called 'shopping worlds' - Historic World, Crystal World, Action World, Urban World and International World. Its huge size and introduction of new, novel technology, defined its attempts to attract customers from across metropolitan Melbourne. This included Australia's largest inner-city carpark with space for over 1,600 cars, automatic reduction of fees for parking and childcare based on
3610-600: The U.K. and Europe, if larger than 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft) can be termed a small retail park , while in the U.S. and some other countries it is known as a neighborhood shopping center . Convenience-scale centers, independent of other centers are known as strip malls or as shopping parades. These centers are less than 30,000 square feet (2,800 m ) of gross leasable space and commonly serve villages or as parts of larger centers commonly called small squares, plazas or indoor markets. They are also called strip centers or convenience centers. Strip Malls, despite
3705-568: The U.S. or Shopping Centres in Commonwealth English . Community-scale shopping centres are commonly called Main Streets , High Streets or town squares in wider centres or in English-speaking Europe as retail parks for certain centres. These offer a wider range of goods and has two anchor supermarkets or discount department stores. They may also follow a parallel configuration, or may be L- or U-shaped. Community centers usually feature
3800-541: The United States have been less common and less successful than in Europe. In Canada, underground passages in Montreal and Toronto link large adjacent downtown retail spaces. In Europe shopping malls/centers continue to grow and thrive. In the region distinction is made between shopping centers (shops under one roof), shopping precincts ( pedestrianized zones of a town or city where many retail stores are located),
3895-450: The United States, the widespread use of the automobile in the 1920s led to the first shopping centers of a few dozen shops that included parking for cars. Starting in 1946, larger, open air centers anchored by department stores were built (sometimes as a collection of adjacent retail properties with different owners), then enclosed shopping malls starting with Victor Gruen 's Southdale Center near Minneapolis in 1956. A shopping mall
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3990-423: The amount of money spent in the shopping centre, and a three-storey glass butterfly enclosure and waterfall . The centre never became profitable for owner Kumagai Gumi, who sold 97.1 per cent to Australian property manager GPT Group for $ 408 million in 1999, retaining 2.9 per cent to write the asset off over 20 years. Kumugai abandoned this plan in 2001, selling their remaining share to GPT for $ 17 million. At
4085-478: The building. For example, the Victorian Chamber of Commerce, National Trust of Australia and heritage preservation groups opposed the link bridges between Melbourne Central and the Myer department store on the grounds that it would discourage people from walking at street level and reduce patronage to smaller businesses. Further redevelopment of the centre in 2002 and 2003 has a significant impact on access to
4180-531: The business going at the new location, soon doing well enough that in 1891 the building was refurbished and extended through to Little Collins Street , designed by D'Ebro alone. The 1880s boom was followed by an economic crash in the 1890s, when William left for New Zealand, becoming a partner in the Economic Store in Wellington, while Alfred stayed and managed to keep the store afloat. One notable innovation in
4275-413: The centre for a settlement. More recent shopping dedicated areas outside the main centre are known as "shopping centres" (with understanding of the synonym shopping mall) "shopping villages" or "retail parks". According to author Richard Longstreth, before the 1920s–1930s, the term "shopping center" in the U.S. was loosely applied to any group of adjacent retail businesses. A city's downtown might be called
4370-430: The centre in April 2002. Eventually costing $ 260 million, the renovated centre with a postmodern design by architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall and ARM Architecture who described it as a "tired, old building", inappropriate for Melbourne. It aimed to open the complex to more natural light, new street-front shopping strips, and bubble-like additions to the footbridge across Little Lonsdale Street, but largely compromised
4465-520: The centre is dedicated to food and beverage outlets. These are concentrated in two food courts and one covered outdoor walkway. These are: Hoyts Cinema, the Melbourne Central Lion Hotel, entertainment venues and various restaurants and bars make up Level 3 of the centre. There is a multi-level glass footbridge across Lonsdale Street to Myer , with the layout of the centre allowing people to walk almost uninterrupted through some form of
4560-472: The centre's opening it was referred to as the "Magic Cone". The tower now contains the Shot Tower Museum and retail stores R.M. Williams , Supré and DJI and was featured in the opening sequence of the 1997 Jackie Chan film Mr. Nice Guy . The watch, designed by Seiko , was given as a gift to the people of Melbourne. When it was unveiled together with the rest of the complex in 1991, the watch had
4655-528: The city. It was a grand classical revival style building at what is now 162-168 Collins Street, and was built in 1884, designed by architects John Grainger and Charles D'Ebro. For over a year they ran the business in the two sites, until in September 1889 a disastrous fire destroyed their 280 Collins premises (which was then replaced by the first stage of the Block Arcade ). Despite being underinsured, they kept
4750-688: The connecting walkways are not owned by a single proprietor and may be in the open air or covered by a ground-floor loggia . Many early shopping arcades such as the Burlington Arcade in London, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, and numerous arcades in Paris are famous and still functioning as shopping centres, while many others have been demolished. In Russia , centuries-old shopping centres
4845-501: The cut and cover construction of Museum Station (now known as Melbourne Central). With planning for the site being carried out by the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority from 1980, the railway station opened in 1981, but protracted negotiations failed to find an anchor tenant for the development, resulting in the State Government of Victoria deciding in 1983 that a private developer should be sought. By
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#17328511102454940-429: The dense, commercial downtowns into the largely residential suburbs. This formula (enclosed space with stores attached, away from downtown, and accessible only by automobile) became a popular way to build retail across the world. Gruen himself came to abhor this effect of his new design; he decried the creation of enormous "land wasting seas of parking" and the spread of suburban sprawl. Georges (store) Georges
5035-661: The design and business plan, a place built according to an overall program that covered the target market, types of stores and store mix, signs, exterior lighting, and parking. In the mid-20th century, with the rise of the suburb and automobile culture in the United States, a new style of shopping center was created away from downtown . Early shopping centers designed for the automobile include Market Square , Lake Forest, Illinois (1916), and Country Club Plaza , Kansas City, Missouri , 55 acres (220,000 m ), opened 1923. The Bank Block in Grandview Heights, Ohio (1928)
5130-415: The design of Kurokawa. The works also compromised access to the adjacent Melbourne Central railway station , removing direct access to Swanston Street and directing passengers through the shopping centre. The renovation took the book value of the complex to $ 1033 million in 2010, up from $ 229.8 million as of at 31 December 2001. In 2010 plans for a second $ 75 million redevelopment were unveiled by GPT. This
5225-558: The earliest public shopping centers is Trajan's Market in Rome located in Trajan's Forum. Trajan's Market was probably built around 100–110 AD by Apollodorus of Damascus , and it is thought to be the world's oldest shopping center. The Grand Bazaar of Istanbul was built in the 15th century and is still one of the largest covered shopping centers in the world, with more than 58 streets and 4,000 shops. Numerous other covered shopping arcades, such as
5320-481: The first enclosed factory outlet center in 1979, in Lakeland, Tennessee , a suburb of Memphis . A shopping precinct (U.K. term) or pedestrian mall (U.S. term) is an area of city centre streets which have been pedestrianized, where there is a concentration of " high street shops" such as department stores, clothing and home furnishings stores, and so forth. They may be part of a larger city-centre pedestrian zone , as
5415-470: The following types: Abbreviations: SC=shopping center/centre, GLA = Gross Leasable Area, NLA = Net Leasable Area , AP=Asia-Pacific, EU=Europe, Can=Canada, US=United States of America does not apply to Europe a.k.a. large neighborhood shopping center in US, Can A superregional-scale center is commonly called a city centre. According to the International Council of Shopping Centers it
5510-555: The former Emporium-Capwell department store in San Francisco , now San Francisco Centre ; Georgetown Park in Washington, D.C. , and the Abasto de Buenos Aires , formerly the city's wholesale produce market. Shopping centers are not a recent innovation. One of the earliest examples of public shopping areas comes from ancient Rome , in forums where shopping markets were located. One of
5605-545: The generations that enjoyed shopping there. The store had such cachet that there have been four books written about it. In 1979 Keith Dunstan published The Store on the Hill, one year before the store's centenary . In 2003, the former head of visual merchandising Laurie Carew, with former model Diane Masters, published Behind the Glass , which they followed up with a second book Still Here in 2006. Annette Cooper’s Remembering Georges: stories from Melbourne’s most elegant store,
5700-479: The ground level entry to the main floor half a level above the street. The design, by David Eggleston, created a spacious uncluttered store interior, creating a more upmarket environment. The store weathered the difficulties of WWII, and immediately after became a leading fashion retailer, for instance offering Norman Hartnell designs in 1946. That same year Reta Findlay was made an associate director, joining an unheard of four females in senior management, heading what
5795-604: The heritage-listed Coop's Shot Tower . The site of the present-day complex was earmarked for development in the early 1970s by the Melbourne City Council . At the time, the State Government of Victoria had started constructing the City Loop underground railway with a station located on the site called Museum Station. The main tower and complex was completed in 1991, designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa and
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#17328511102455890-530: The late 19th century and early 20th century, including the Cleveland Arcade , and Moscow 's GUM , which opened in 1890. When the Cleveland Arcade opened in 1890, it was among the first indoor shopping arcades in the US, and like its European counterparts, was an architectural triumph. Two sides of the arcade had 1,600 panes of glass set in iron framing and is a prime example of Victorian architecture . Sydney's Queen Victoria Markets Building , opened in 1898,
5985-614: The mid-1950s, it claimed to be the largest shopping center on the West Coast of the United States and the third-largest in the country. The first part of the Panorama City Shopping Center opened as on October 10, 1955, and would grow until the mid-1960s, it claimed to be the first shopping center with four major department store anchors, even though the "center" was in fact a marketing association for multiple adjacent properties. Northland Center near Detroit , built 1954,
6080-471: The most fashionable section of retailing in the city. In 1880, when still only in their late 20s, the opportunity came to take over the business, rebranded as George & George. Finding success in a booming economy, in 1883 they moved a few doors down to a large four-storey building at 11-17 Collins Street East (now 280 Collins Street ), which had been built in 1877 as Briscoe's warehouse ), and rebranded again as George & George’s Federal Emporium, selling
6175-437: The name, are not considered "malls" in North America. Power centers , in North America, are open-air single-level shopping centers that almost exclusively feature several big-box retailers as their anchors (although newer urban power centers have adopted enclosed and/or vertical formats while retaining the strong big-box emphasis). They usually have a retail area of 250,000 to 600,000 square feet (23,000 to 56,000 m ) and
6270-418: The now-renamed Melbourne Central railway station. The original complex design featured a direct entrance to the underground concourse from the tram stop on Swanston Street , the busiest section of tram track in the world. The company operating Melbourne's suburban railways at the time, M>Train , together with the owners of Melbourne Central, closed this direct entrance in favour of a much longer route through
6365-402: The perceived negative impact on land values. Confirmed design intentions were not publicly revealed until 1985 following a lengthy tender evaluation and committee process. There was criticism throughout the design and construction phases of the complex's impacts on heritage and neighbourhood character . At the time of its early planning the prevailing attitude from government planners was that
6460-443: The precinct. The food court on Level 2 called 'Food on Two' was closed in 2011 as part of this redevelopment. It was replaced with a larger food court, called the 'Dining Hall', opened in the first stage of the 2010-2011 redevelopment. During the early stages of planning in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the lack of certainty on the site's future was criticised by some existing property owners, residents and business operators due to
6555-501: The prime position of the store slowly faded. The store was closed on 5 October 1995. In 1996, work began to comprehensively refurbish the building to a design by Stephen Bennett and UK retail guru Terence Conran to create something like the successful Habitat stores in the UK. The atrium was reinstated but in modern materials, and the Edwardian walk-through windows were removed in favour of
6650-619: The purchase of all the ordinary paid up capital in Georges Holding Limited. Cox Brothers began to incur loses in 1962/63 and went into receivership in 1966. Georges was listed (again) as a new company on the Melbourne Stock Exchange as Georges Australia Limited. In 1960 the store prepared to expand across Little Collins Street to the rear by buying the premises of Specialty Press, which had printed much of their promotional material. It had originally been built in 1891 as
6745-400: The same time, Daimaru closed their department store in 2002, paying $ 30 million for their five years of remaining rent in return for abandoning their lease commitment which ended in 2016. Daimaru never turned a profit on the store, costing its shareholders approximately $ 200 million. With half the total retail space empty due to the loss of Daimaru, GPT announced a $ 195 million plan to renovate
6840-424: The shopping centre. This caused overcrowding and delays to passengers attempting to access the station platforms. The Melbourne Central Office Tower tops out at 210 metres (690 ft) with 57 storeys, 46 of which are for office use. Currently it is occupied by ME Bank replacing space previously tenanted by BP and Telstra . Several Australian and Victorian Government departments and agencies maintain spaces in
6935-526: The size of regional malls still operate, consisting of multiple arcades. They developed from previous so-called "trading rows", which were essentially markets where traders could obtain space to sell their goods. Great Gostiny Dvor in Saint Petersburg in its present buildings dates back to the 1760s. With a total area of 800,000 square feet (74,000 m ), GUM in Moscow, opened in its present buildings in
7030-517: The store you would come back ." In the 1950s Georges became the exclusive retailer for Georg Jensen homewares, Waterford crystal and Liberty fabrics. When Reta Findlay died suddenly in 1954, her status was such that her funeral was held in St Paul’s Cathedral , and Georges was closed for half a day. The firm was taken over by retail holding company Cox Brothers in November 1960 through
7125-572: The suburbs. The flagship Flinders Street store was sold in May, 1976, and ultimately only two outlets were retained as Georges branches; one in Burke Road , Camberwell , opening in 1977, and one in The Jam Factory on Chapel Street , South Yarra , opening in 1979. The Sydney-based department store David Jones then took over Georges in 1981, refurbishing the store and operating as it always had, but
7220-557: The time registrations closed in March 1984 a total of 28 submissions had been received from developers, with eight selected organisations invited to respond. A government panel sat in April 1985 to evaluate the responses, and one month later announced their preferred scheme: designed by Hassell Architects for EKG Developments, a joint venture between Australian property developer Essington Limited and Japanese construction firm Kumagai Gumi . The project compromised an 85 floor office tower, with
7315-626: The tower including Creative Australia , the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts and the Victorian Energy & Water Ombudsman. Other tenants include Wilson Parking , Nordex and Pacific Basin Shipping Limited The tower is owned by GPT Wholesale Office Fund and the tower structure is approximately 210 metres (690 ft) tall. Including
7410-756: The twentieth century" by Malcolm Gladwell . The first retail complex to be promoted as a "mall" was Paramus, New Jersey's Bergen Mall . The center, which opened with an open-air format in 1957, was enclosed in 1973. Aside from Southdale Center , significant early enclosed shopping malls were Harundale Mall (1958) in Glen Burnie, Maryland, Big Town Mall (1959) in Mesquite, Texas, Chris-Town Mall (1961) in Phoenix, Arizona, and Randhurst Center (1962) in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Other early malls moved retailing away from
7505-405: The two 54-metre (177 ft) communications masts that extend a further 35 metres (115 ft) above the apex, the tower is 246 metres (807 ft) tall. The Coops Shot Tower was built in 1888 and used for making shot balls by dropping liquid lead off the top of the 50-metre (160 ft) high structure. After last being used in 1961, the tower was retained after being heritage listed to become
7600-664: The word "mall", that is, a pedestrian promenade (in U.K. usage a "shopping precinct"). Early downtown pedestrianized malls included the Kalamazoo Mall (the first, in 1959), "Shoppers' See-Way" in Toledo , Lincoln Road Mall in Miami Beach , Santa Monica Mall (1965), and malls in Fort Worth and in Canada's capital, Ottawa . The downtown Urbana, Illinois mall , converted from a city street,
7695-605: Was a department store in Melbourne , Victoria, Australia , established in 1880 and closed in 1995, and was well known for its last 50 years as the city’s premier women's fashion department store. Brothers William Henry George (1855-1935) and Alfred Harley George (1857-1930) were born in England, educated in London, and began their working life in retailing in the 1870s. They emigrated to Melbourne in 1877, and soon found work at Robinson’s drapers at 37 Collins Street East, in 'the block',
7790-558: Was a center in Ardmore, Pennsylvania later named Suburban Square , when the Philadelphia department store Strawbridge & Clothier opened a four-story, 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m ) branch there on May 12, 1930. A much larger example would be the 550,000-square-foot (51,000 m ) Broadway-Crenshaw Center in Los Angeles built in 1947, anchored by a five-story Broadway and
7885-459: Was a collection of stores under one roof aimed at the workers in the company town of Morgan Park , in Duluth, Minnesota . Before the 1920s–1930s, the term "shopping center" in the U.S. was loosely applies to a collection of retail businesses. A city's Downtown might be called a "shopping center". By the 1940s, "shopping center" implied — if not always a single owner — at least, comprehensive planning in
7980-603: Was also an ambitious architectural project. Shopping Centers built before the 20th century ; Notes: *based on current ICSC shopping center type definitions, **center opened in 1926 without department store, which was added in 1930 Early examples of "stores under one roof" include the nine-building shopping arcade Dayton Arcade in Dayton, Ohio (1902–1904), primarily built to rehouse the public food markets in more sanitary conditions, but which added retail clothing and household goods stores. The Lake View Store , opened July 1916,
8075-509: Was an early strip mall or neighborhood center of 30 shops built along Grandview Avenue, with parking in the back for 400 cars. Uniquely for the time, it had multiple national grocery store tenants Kroger , Piggly Wiggly , and the A&;P Tea Company. The Park and Shop (1930) in Cleveland Park, Washington, D.C. was an early strip mall or neighborhood center with parking in the front. It
8170-498: Was anchored by Piggly Wiggly and built in an L shape. Other notable, large early centers with strips of independent stores, adjacent parking lots, but no department store anchors, include Highland Park Village (1931) in Dallas ; and River Oaks Shopping Center (1937) in Houston . In the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the term "shopping mall" was first used, but in the original sense of
8265-477: Was brought on board as architect, with Hassell and Bates, Smart & McCutcheon compensated by becoming the joint documenters of the scheme. It was also scaled back, with the hotel removed, and the office tower reduced to 72 storeys and then 55, and the atrium reduce to a tall cone, and a circular opening through the shopping levels. An arm of shops connecting to Lonsdale Street was also added, replacing 19th century warehouses, and via footbridges connected through to
8360-742: Was by then a largely female staff. The store kept up with the latest overseas trends, and invited designers to come out, such as Peter Russell and milliner Aage Thaarup , purchasing designs from them, and staging regular fashion parades. By the early 1950s the store catered to the cream of Melbourne society, and the show windows drew admiring crowds. Georges developed a reputation for superior quality equal to that enjoyed by Harrods or Fortnum & Mason of London, and Bergdorf Goodman of New York. The stores' staff handbook instructed employees to avoid high pressure sales techniques. Author and customer Annette Cooper states that Georges: " wanted to foster loyalty, and if they made you feel good about coming into
8455-473: Was done in two stages, with the first costing $ 30 million. Using the same Ashton Raggatt McDougall Architects from its 2002 - 2005 redevelopment, these new plans called for more new entrances and retail precincts. This included new food shops on the western side and a new side entrance from Swanston Street near the intersection with La Trobe Street. New entrances through Knox Lane from Elizabeth Street were also built to create another cross-block connection through
8550-399: Was enclosed, designed by Victor Gruen . Although Bergen Mall (opened 1957) led other suburban shopping centers in using "mall" in their names, these types of properties were still referred to as "shopping centers" until the late 1960s, when the term "shopping mall" started to be used generically for large suburban shopping centers. The term "mall" for regional enclosed shopping centers
8645-1079: Was installed on the side of the Coop's Shot Tower as part of the Melbourne International Design Festival in July 2008. Pioneered by internationally renowned French artist and scientist, Patrick Blanc , the garden had no soil and was attached to the wall using PVC plastic. However, the running cost proved expensive and in 2013 it was replaced with an advertising billboard. Melbourne Central currently has 276 retail shops and services. Its current two anchor tenants, Hoyts Cinemas and Coles , each occupy 7,710 square metres (83,000 sq ft) and 1,310 square metres (14,100 sq ft) of space respectively. Other key tenants include adidas , Sephora , JD Sports , Platypus Shoes , Country Road , R. M. Williams , Cotton On , Lego Certified Store, JB Hi-Fi , Rebel Sport , Under Armour , Nike , Supré , MECCA , DJI and Calvin Klein . A large portion of
8740-541: Was opened in Paris in 1798. The Burlington Arcade in London was opened in 1819. The Arcade in Providence, Rhode Island introduced the retail arcade concept to the United States in 1828 and is arguably the oldest "shopping center" in the country. The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan , Italy followed in the 1870s and is closer to large modern malls in spaciousness. Other large cities created arcades and shopping centers in
8835-661: Was pioneered in 1956 by the Austrian-born architect and American immigrant Victor Gruen . This new generation of regional-size shopping centers began with the Gruen-designed Southdale Center , which opened in the Twin Cities suburb of Edina, Minnesota , United States in October 1956. For pioneering the soon-to-be enormously popular mall concept in this form, Gruen has been called the "most influential architect of
8930-474: Was published, also by Laurie Carew and Diane Masters; and, in 2014, Annette Cooper’s Remembering Georges: stories from Melbourne’s most elegant store was published, a compendium of interviews with former staff and clients. The Powne family holds a personal connection to this day. William Powne was a migrant from Cornwall , who initially had a drapery business in Ballarat named Powne and Cray, and later worked for
9025-543: Was the first of 4 centers that Victor Gruen built for Hudson's ( Eastland Center , Southland Center , and Westland Center were the others) At launch, Northland Center was the world's largest shopping center. The enclosed shopping mall did not appear until the mid-1950s. One of the earliest examples was the Valley Fair Shopping Center in Appleton, Wisconsin , which opened in March 1955. Valley Fair featured
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