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See Market Square, Geelong for the history of the site before the centre.. The 1980s saw the first of many urban renewal proposals floated for the central Geelong area. The Geelong Regional Commission on 6 November 1981 released a plan that would see a massive shopping centre extend from Little Malop Street through to the waterfront. [1]
Waurn Ponds Shopping Centre. Waurn Ponds Shopping Centre is a major regional shopping centre servicing the southern suburbs of the city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.It is located on the corner of Colac and Pioneer Roads in the suburb of Grovedale.
Birregurra is host to the Birregurra Festival and Art Show, which starts on the second full weekend of October each year. [11]A produce market is held on the second Sunday of each month from November to April, where local vendors sell cakes, jewellery, plants, fresh fruit and vegetables, wine, arts and crafts. [12]
Known as “Pako” to local residents, the strip stretches between the suburbs of Geelong West at its north end and Newtown at the south. The south end of Pakington Street is commonly referred to as the "Paris end", [ 1 ] due to its high density of high-end designer boutiques and exclusive restaurants, while the north end, better suited for ...
The $380 million Geelong Ring Road (an extension of the Princes Freeway) bypasses the greater Geelong urban area exiting the Princes Highway near Corio to rejoin the highway at Waurn Ponds. [177] The Lewis Bandt Bridge , named in honour of the Ford Australia engineer who is credited as the inventor of the ute (1934), in Geelong is a feature of ...
Route 43 – Deakin University to Geelong Railway station and return, via Highton and Newtown – runs every 40 minutes on weekdays and hourly on weekends. The Geelong V/Line rail service, to and from Geelong and Melbourne, was extended to the new Waurn Ponds railway station, situated in Sugargum Drive, in 2014. [20]
Westfield Geelong is a shopping centre located in the Geelong CBD in Victoria, Australia which was opened in 1988. It was formerly known as Westfield Bay City before the 2008 redevelopment, and as Bay City Plaza before being acquired by the Westfield Group in 2003.
Derrinallum features a FoodWorks supermarket, which includes a hardware store, nursery and newsagency. Also within the town are a post office, a fish and chip shop (Derri Takeaway), a pub, a motel, a Shell service station, two mechanics, a library, a Red Cross shop, a rural supplies business and a cafe.