Westfield Garden City
A Shopping Centre in Queensland
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| Location | Upper Mount Gravatt, Brisbane Australia |
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| Coordinates | 27°33′50″S 153°05′00″E / 27.56389°S 153.08333°ECoordinates: 27°33′50″S 153°05′00″E / 27.56389°S 153.08333°E |
| Developer | Scentre Group |
| Management | Scentre Group |
| Owner | Scentre Group |
| No. of stores and services | 402 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 11 |
| Total retail floor area | 142,835m² |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Parking | 6,254 spaces |
| Website | westfield.com.au/gardencity |
Westfield Garden City, better known as Garden City, is one of Brisbane's major shopping centres, located in the suburb of Upper Mount Gravatt. The centre is operated by Westfield, and previously operated by AMP Limited before the takeover in 2003. The shopping centre currently has 440 specialty stores, cafes, restaurants and other services and food vendors.
Within the centre is a post office and a Brisbane City Council public library. Another notable feature of Garden City is the Town Square, which is an outdoor dining area featuring coffee shops, restaurants and an Event cinemas complex.
Garden City was originally developed by the department store company David Jones. Opened on 1 October 1971, Garden City featured a 3 level David Jones department Store, a 2 level McDonnell and East department store, a 1 level Woolworths family store and a Brisbane City Council library.
Over the years there have been a number of changes and expansions to Garden City. Below is a brief summary of these changes.
In 1980 an extension was added to the eastern end of the centre. This featured additional major and specialty stores. A food court was added to the centre adjacent to the main court in 1982.
In 1986 an extension was added to the southern part of the 1980 extension. This new extension added a Super Kmart Hypermarket to the centre plus additional specialty stores.
1990 brought a number of major store changes to the centre. The McDonnell and East department store closed due to the retailer going into receivership. Its space was split into two with the toy store Toys 'R' Us occupying one half and the Brisbane City Council library relocating to the other from its original space. Around this time, discount department store Venture closed due to the retailer going into receivership. Also, due to Coles-Myer retiring the Super Kmart concept, the store at Garden City was divided into a Kmart discount department store and Coles supermarket.
In 1998, David Jones relocated from its original location to a new 2 level store that was built on the site of the original Woolworths store. Woolworths relocated to a new store that was built on a second level that was added to the 1980 extension. The original David Jones store was converted into a multi level car park. A Big-W discount department store opened as part of a new second level on the 1986 extension.
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