Crown Street, Wollongong

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Crown Street is the main street in the City of Wollongong, New South Wales. It was created in the early 1800s from a cattle track which follows a ridge from Mt. Keira to the first farm house in the area, and quickly became the "main" street of the then town.

Today Crown Street is the main arterial route through Wollongong from the southern suburbs to the north east. Along its route it features Wollongong Hospital, the Piccadilly centre, Wollongong railway station, and the now-abandoned PMG building. Crown Street has also now become a major shopping district after being partially converted into a mall in the mid 1980s.

[edit] Crown Street Mall

The pedestrian-only zone of Crown Street Mall stretches from the corner of Crown and Keira Streets in the west to the corner of Crown and Kembla Streets in the east - these cross streets being named after the local mountains Mt. Keira and Mt. Kembla respectively. The mall had originally included two distinctive archways as well as several fountains and architectural features, however the archways in on the junction of Crown and Kiera Streets have since been demolished to make room for a pedestrian bridge.

The mall includes the following shops and centres: