MacArthur Central
| MacArthur Central Shopping Centre | |
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Elizabeth Street and Edward Street facades
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| General information | |
| Type | Retail CBD Centre, Apartments & Museum |
| Address |
229-259 Queen Street, Brisbane 4000 Queensland |
| Coordinates | 27°28′6.7980″S 153°1′38.9100″E / 27.468555000°S 153.027475000°E |
| Current tenants |
Anchor Tenants: Apple Inc, Woolworths, Big W, JB Hifi, TAG Heuer |
| Owner | Precision Group |
| Technical details | |
| Floor area | 15,071 m2 |
| Website | |
| www |
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229-259 Queen Street,
Brisbane 4000
Anchor Tenants: Apple Inc, Woolworths, Big W, JB Hifi,
MacArthur Central, also known as MacArthur Central Shopping Centre, is a modern four level shopping centre that incorporates an English Renaissance styled heritage-listed building known as MacArthur Chambers.
MacArthur Central is located at 229-259 Queen Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, that is, on the north-east corners of Queen Street, Edward Street and Elizabeth Street. The MacArthur Chambers building is notable for its wartime association with General Douglas MacArthur, who used the building as the Allied forces' South West Pacific Area Headquarters from July 1942 to November 1944.
A feature of the MacArthur Chambers building (and until recently of all buildings that were owned by the AMP Society) is a three figure statue above the portico entrance of the Queen Street façade of the building, sculptured in Sicilian marble by Fred Gowan, representing: "Strength, Plenty, Production and Growth".
Below the statue is the Latin motto of the AMP Society -
The MacArthur Chambers building was constructed between 1930 and 1934 and with the exception of the war years was the Queensland headquarters of the AMP Society until 1977 when that organisation moved to new premises in Creek Street. The AMP Society has subsequently demutualised, becoming a company known as AMP Limited.
The AMP Society's Board Room was on the eighth floor, which became the location of General Douglas MacArthur's office. By military order tenants from the second to ninth floors were compulsorily evacuated for the Hiring Department of the Defence Forces.
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