Harbour Town refers to the shopping centre concept to collocate factory outlets in one centre. There are presently four such centres operating in Australia. They are especially popular with tourists, although many locals also shop there.
As at September 2009, there are currently four locations: Biggera Waters, on Queensland's Gold Coast; West Perth, in Western Australia; Adelaide Airport, in South Australia and at Water Front City, Docklands in Melbourne, Victoria.
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Harbour Town Gold Coast is located on the corner of the Gold Coast Highway and Oxley Drive Biggera Waters, Queensland. The Gold Coast centre opened in December 1999 when The Lewis Land Group of Companies opened Australia's first and largest purpose-built brand direct factory outlet shopping centre.
There are about 120 outlet stores including City Beach, Oroton, Nike, and a David Jones Warehouse. Also, there is a large Woolworths, and a large 14 screen Reading Cinemas complex. Disapproval was expressed by some local residents at the demolition of a Drive-In movie area on the site.
Harbour Town Gold Coast has an undisclosed large amount of car parking available that surrounds the complex, there are multiple entries and exits to and from the car park from the Gold Coast Hwy, Oxley Dr., Mota Vu Dr. and Harbour Town Dr.
Harbour Town Gold Coast is serviced by multiple Translink (Surfside Buslines) Buses from Southport, Broadbeach to Helensvale and beyond that operate in the area making it convenient. Translink Bus Routes include 16*, 703, 709, 715 and 738. Refer to Translink Website http://www.translink.com.au Search for Bus routes to "Harbour Town", "Biggera Waters". route 16 is not listed as a highway service but traverses the route to Helensvale station via Harbour Town.
Harbour Town Perth is located on Wellington Street in West Perth and features around 120 specialty stores including names like Nike Factory Outlet, Adidas Factory Outlet, Ojay, Esprit, Authentics Factory Outlet (Converse), City Beach, Levi's and Forever New. The centre is situated over 2 floors and has a square design. The centre opened in 2003.
Harbour Town Adelaide is situated in West Beach, South Australia. It features over 100 outlet stores in an L-shaped design. The main stores in the centre are Morrissey, JAG and Esprit outlet stores. Since major upgrades to the Adelaide Airport and the opening of South Australia's first Ikea store nearby in 2006 the centre has seen an increase in trading and plans are underway for expansion.
A new 41,000 sq.m Harbour Town centre opened on 21 October 2008 in Melbourne's Docklands. It is located in the Waterfront City precinct, underneath the Southern Star Observation Wheel. When fully tenanted the new centre will feature over 200 stores as well as Australia's first Costco Warehouse Store, and like other Harbour Town centres, a majority of the stores will be outlets. It also features Australia's very first 18 hole Glow-in-the-dark Mini Golf and Coffin Ride (Which is a simulated ride in a real Coffin.)
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