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Grace Bros was an Australian department store chain, founded in 1885. It was bought by Myer (later Coles Myer) in 1983.There were 25 stores across New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory plus a few in Victoria, until they were re-branded under the Myer name in 2004.
The Myer retail group was founded by Sidney Myer, who migrated from Belarus to Melbourne in 1899 after the height of Victoria's gold rush, with very little money and little knowledge of English to join his elder brother, Elcon Myer (1875–1938), who had left Russia two years earlier.
The centre featured an Olympic sized ice rink, Grace Bros (rebranded to Myer in 2004), Big W, Target, Woolworths and 130 speciality stores. [3] Macquarie Centre was the third centre in Sydney to facilitate an "incline mall" design (after Westfield Burwood and Westfield Hurstville) and was built on a spiral staircase around the sundial water ...
Top Ryde was anchored by Sydney-based A.J. Benjamin & Co department store, Franklins supermarket, a chain variety store and 45 other shops grouped around a pedestrian mall, with 400 parking spaces. The centre feature modern sculpture centre which was a focal point designed by artist Gordon Andrews, a personal friend of Peter Yeoman.
A Big W store at the Top Ryde City shopping centre, Ryde, New South Wales. Ever since its modern format stores in 1976, Big W stores featured garden centres similar to Kmart and Target. These facilities continued to be added throughout its store portfolio throughout the 1980s and early 2000s until they started being added to only a select few ...
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (January 2016) There are many different types of shopping centres in Australia. In 2018, the Shopping Centre Council of Australia Identified Australia has had 1,630 existing shopping centres, being defined as a major Integrated retail centre with at least 1,000 m 2 (11,000 sq ft) of lettable retail floor-space, with over 65,000 ...
North Ryde Golf Club [44] is an 18-hole par 69 golf course, with quality dining, wedding and corporate function facilities. It was previously a site for motorcycle racing in the late 1920s. North Ryde RSL Community Club [45] has various dining venues, live entertainment, gift shop and various sporting clubs.
In July 1983, the Myer Emporium sold the shopping centre to the Gandel Group of Companies. [4] In June 2011, the CFS Retail Property Trust sold a 50% shareholding to CPP Investments. [5] CPP sold this in March 2014 to the GPT Group. [6] [7] The other 50% passed to Vicinity Centres in June 2015 when it merged with the Novion Property Group. [8] [9]