Talk:Chadstone Shopping Centre

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[edit] Note

It's also interesting to note that within one block of Chadstone is every Coles Myer owned brand except for Liquorland/VC and Target Country. Coles, Bilo, Kmart, Kmart Tyre & Auto, Myer and Target are in the shopping centre itself. Officeworks, Megamart and KMart Garden Center are located at the corner of Warrigal and Waverly Roads. Coles Express is located at the corner of Princess Hwy and Warrigal Roads.

-You are right. Clearly no accident. Interestingly, Woolworths has been kept out of the region almost completely. The Shopping Centre has no Safeway, Big W or Dick Smiths (although there is in fact a Tandy). And now there is a Caltex/Safeway Petrol on the corner of Waverley and Warrigal Roads in Chadstone. Revenge 14:19, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

- Furthermore, apart from one boutiquey type liquer shop there is no alcohol retailer. One cannot buy a slab of VB in Chadstone.

[edit] History

I lived in Chadstone (the suburb) in the late 60s/early 70s, and my family shopped at Chadstone shopping centre in its original structure. There was originally a supermarket (New World, which I believe was owned by Coles) at the northern end, which wasn't redeveloped as the existing Target store until the 80s, although I'm not sure if that was before or after the Gandel Group bought the complex.

Unfortunately I can't find any citations for this on Google. I live in London now, but there might be something available in newspaper archives in Melbourne libraries, and there is also a section on the building of the shopping centre in The Gay Provider a history of the Myer Emporium written by Alan Marshall (1961), which my mother, a former Myer employee, owns. redcountess 20:08, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Largest?

According to other articles on Wikipedia, Knox has more space (as at 02/02/2007) for let and both Paramatta and Southland shopping centres have more stores. This being the case, the first line of this article "Chadstone Shopping Centre in Chadstone, Victoria, Australia is the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere" needs to be removed or clarified. Dgen 02:06, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Good point. If you read the article's history section it explains how Chadstone was the largest, then Knox, but with extensions Chadstone will be the largest again. Is it the largest now, I don't know. If I can find some facts I'll post them. Chadstone was a favourite place to be during school holidays when I was growing up. Roaming27 03:32, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photos

Can someone fix the layout of the photos please, I don't know how to do it. Also, do we need three photos? Thank you muchly. Roaming27 21:43, 4 February 2007 (UTC)