Southland Shopping Centre

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Southland Shopping Centre
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Location	Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia
Opening date	September 1967
Developer	Westfield Group
Management	Westfield Group
Owner	Westfield Group
No. of stores and services	502+ stores
No. of anchor tenants	502+ stores
Total retail floor area	approx 128,000 m²
Parking	6000
No. of floors	3
Website	Westfield Southland

Southland Shopping Centre, also known as Westfield Shoppingtown Southland, is a large retail complex located in the suburb of Cheltenham, approximately 16 kilometres from the Melbourne CBD in Australia. In terms of retail outlets, Southland Shopping Centre is the second largest shopping centre in the Southern hemisphere, behind number one Westfield Parramatta in Sydney by a mere ~50 stores. However, Southland's floor area of 128,000 m² makes it the fourth largest in Victoria and the fifth largest in Australia.

1 History
2 Anchor Retailers
3 Southland in Film and Television
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] History

Southland was one of Melbourne's premier shopping centres at the time of its opening in 1968. It was quite a small shopping centre with only a few stores such as a Myer department store, Woolworths supermarket, and a special roof garden.

After 30 years the centre has gained many more stores and has expanded on to what was the former Cheltenham Market site, which was closed in 1996.

During Southland's history, many renovations and facelifts have shaped the centre such as the development of a Village Cinemas complex and food court in 1990. In 1996, construction started on the centre again and the demolition of most of the centre made way for more shops and a new food court. It was also expanded across the Nepean Highway by a large pedestrian bridge, which has shops and a road link to the other side. Construction also included a new larger cinema complex and a youth-oriented mall called The Street, which opened in April 1999. The development was completed by late 1999.

[edit] Anchor Retailers

Southland is the only shopping centre in Melbourne which features all major anchor reailers in the one centre. It features 3 department stores, 3 discount department stores, 3 supermarkets, 2 electrical (computers, television etc) retailers and a 16 screen Village Cinemas multiplex.

David Jones department store
Harris Scarfe department store
Myer department store
BIG W discount department store
Kmart discount department store
Target discount department store
Safeway supermarket
Coles supermarket
BI-LO supermarket
Dick Smith Electronics PowerHouse electrical store
Harvey Norman electrical store
Village Cinemas 16 screen cinema multiplex

[edit] Southland in Film and Television

A large number of scenes for the ABC-TV comedy series Kath & Kim are filmed at Southland, although the centre is masquerading as Fountain Gate Shopping Centre, which some of the shopping scenes are also filmed there.

[edit] Trivia

Southland, due to its immense size, features multiple instances of food outlets within its confines. For example, there are two Muffin Break and Gloria Jean's stores and three Donut King kiosks that services separate sections.

There are also two Angus & Robertson bookstores.