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Lonsdale Street is a main street and thoroughfare in the Melbourne central business district, Australia. It runs roughly east–west and was laid out in 1837 as one of Melbourne's original boundaries within the Hoddle Grid. The street extends from Spring Street in the east to Spencer Street in the west. Lonsdale Street is home to multiple ...
Stalactites is a Greek-Australian restaurant in Melbourne, Australia. [1] [2] [3] It is located on Lonsdale street in the Melbourne's CBD's Greek quarter. [4] [5] The restaurant was founded in 1978 by Konstantinos Tsoutouras, also known as Barba Kostas. [2] He had previously opened other chain restaurants and fish and chips stores, before ...
Queen Victoria Village in May 2008 QV Melbourne Night view in August 2017. QV Melbourne or just QV, is a precinct in the Melbourne CBD, Victoria, Australia.Covering the city block bounded by Lonsdale, Little Lonsdale, Swanston, and Russell Streets, and located next to the State Library of Victoria, QV comprises a large shopping centre, a central plaza, an underground food court, Melbourne city ...
Emporium Melbourne (or simply Emporium) is a luxury shopping centre on the corner of Lonsdale and Swanston streets in Melbourne, Australia. Occupying the former Lonsdale Street site of Myer's Melbourne store, Emporium opened in 2014 following extensive redevelopment.
Hardware Lane. From 1857, the lane was known as Wrights Lane. In 1927 it was renamed Hardware Lane after Hardware House. [2] The lane is on land formerly occupied by Kirk's Horse Bazaar, a horse and livery trading centre built in 1840 by James Bowie Kirk, [1] and the first home of Melbourne's Tattersall's Club, [4] where wagers with the big bookmakers were settled.
The term 'central business district', or 'CBD', was first used in the Report on a planning scheme for the central business area of the City of Melbourne by town planner E.F. Borrie, which was commissioned by the City of Melbourne, and published in 1964. The maps used in the report show the CBD as just the Hoddle Grid, plus the parallel streets ...
The origin of this grid, marked on the 1837 map, was on the crest of Batman's Hill, striking magnetic north for one mile, to an east west line (now Victoria Street/Parade) marking the northern extent of the government reserve outside the central grid. The rest of metropolitan Melbourne generally follows this grid pattern.
Standing 218 m high with 47 floors (43 used as offices), [1] it is the equal 21st tallest in Melbourne as of 2024. [2] It is located at 242 Exhibition Street . It is the world headquarters for Telstra and includes a small retail precinct located on the ground floor towards the Little Lonsdale Street side.