| Burwood East Melbourne, Victoria |
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| Population: | 10,011 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3151 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 4.3 km² (1.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 17 km (11 mi) from Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Whitehorse | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Forest Hill | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Chisholm, Deakin | ||||||||||||
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Burwood East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located 17 km east of Melbourne's central business district.[2] Its Local Government Area is the City of Whitehorse. The suburb is bounded by Springvale Road to the east, by Middleborough Road to the west, by Eley Road and Hawthorn Road to the north and Highbury Road to the south. At the 2006 Census, Burwood East had a population of 10,011.
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The Wurundjeri Aboriginal clan, one of four Koorie clans that inhabited the Port Phillip region, were the original occupants of the area now occupied by East Burwood. To the east of present day Middleborough Road, much of the land was initially not very attractive to European squatters for settlement and parts were mostly covered with open forests, consisting of Red Stringybark, Red Box, Long Leaf Box, Candlebark and Manna Gum.[3] Highbury Park contains some of the few stands of remnant vegetation including the locally uncommon Shiny Wallaby-grass (Austrodanthonia induta).[4]
By the mid 19th century, East Burwood and the surrounding districts were under cultivation, and local horticulturists were supplying Melbourne's markets, including the Victoria Markets, with cut flowers and produce. Jonquils and Daffodils were harvested in the area well into the 1950s. Apple, cherry and pear groves covered the hill slopes for close to a century. Local orchardist Walter Mock developed the Red Williams’ pear variety in East Burwood during the 1930s.[5] The 'Reds' found favour and the variety was exported to Europe and North America.[6] However little more than thirty years later, the last of the orchards located in East Burwood had been ripped up or relocated in one case to Bacchus Marsh.[7][8]
Burwood East is notable as the site of the first Kmart department store in Australia.[9] The Kmart Plaza store [10] opened in 1969 at the intersection of Burwood Road (Now Highway) and Blackburn Road. It was the first 24-hour Kmart store, and proved very popular with locals, frustrated with the limited shopping hours on offer at the time. This Kmart is the second largest in Australia (Needs reference) with a gross leasable area of 8,444 m2 (90,890 sq ft).[11]
The Tally Ho business park on the corner of Burwood Highway and Springvale Road hosts the headquarters of many corporations and organisations including MYOB, the Country Fire Authority and a regional headquarters of VicRoads and Yokogawa. The site of the Tally Ho business park and its surrounds was previously occupied by the Tally Ho Boys' Home, which was established on land provided at a reduced price to the Methodist Church by Abel Hoadley, the inventor of the Violet Crumble bar.
On the north side of Burwood Highway, there is currently construction underway (Dec 2006) for additional business buildings, expanding the business park beyond the boundary of the original Tally Ho Boys' Home.
Vision Drive (Located adjacent to the Tally Ho Business Park) is the current location of World Vision Australia's National Office, The GPT Group and the National Archives of Australia (Melbourne Repository).
Burwood East is very well serviced by public transport.
The Burwood Highway is part of Melbourne's Tram Network. Tram Route 75 originally terminated at the intersection of Blackburn Road and Burwood Highway until July 2005 and the completion of the 3 km line extension to Hartland Rd in Vermont South. Also with the introduction of the new MYKI ticketing system the tram zone boundaries have also been extended. This is good news for Route 75 passengers travelling across Zone 1 and 2 as they now only need to a pay Zone 1 fare.
Burwood East is home to the Nunawading Basketball Centre, Nunawading Velodrome, and East Burwood Football Club on Burwood Highway.
Football has been played in Burwood East since 1915 and local fruit and flower growers produced an abundance of footballers. The club has built a family tradition and families names such as Fankhauser, Tainton and Mullens.[12] Today the club competes in the Eastern Football League.[13]
Schools in the suburb include:
The State Government has declared the Burwood Heights area as a 'Major Activity Centre' because of the easy access to public transport, current uses and the potential for significant development. In March 2008 the Whitehorse Council approved a development plan that will see housing for up to 1000 residents at the old brickworks site in East Burwood.[14]
The development will comprise over 25,000sqm of retail floorspace, multiscreen cinemas, up to 700 dwelings, leisure and entertainment and community facilities all based around “main street” retail/entertainment precinct and urban plaza. The project is scheduled for completion in 2015. Details of the Burwood Heights Activity Center Project are listed here
Kmart Plaza will also undergo a facelift with renovations scheduled to start early 2010. The owners of the K-Mart Plaza, also known as the East Burwood Plaza, will double the size of the complex, on the corner of Burwood Highway and Blackburn Road, from 15,000 square meters to 30,000 square meters [11]. The new leasing floor plan can be viewed from [2] here.
Pomeroy Pacific development manager Paul Chiodo said the $35 million extension will add about 30 specialty shops, a 5,500 square metre Coles supermarket, a 333 seat restaurant, gymnasium, and a First Choice bottle shop. The extension will be built over an existing car park, on the western side of the 6.3 hectare site.
German discount supermarket chain Aldi will lease the 2,981 square metre supermarket space currently occupied by Coles. K-Mart, which occupies about 8,444 square metres of space and trades 24-hours a day, will not relocate. Construction work is currently underway with stage 1 completion due in mid 2011 and the centre will be renamed to 'Burwood One'.
Supermarket Coles will also open 24 hours 7 days a week as Kmart in Burwood One shopping center [3].
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