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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 .
Little Lonsdale Street is located in the centre of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.A part of the Hoddle Grid, it runs roughly east–west.North of Lonsdale Street and south of La Trobe Street, Little Lonsdale Street's eastern end intersects with Spring Street while its western end intersects with Spencer Street.
In 2010, Myer's re-developed Bourke Street mall store opened, becoming the company's new flagship store. Head office moved to a new site in Docklands. The historic Lonsdale Street store was officially closed. In early 2011, Myer purchased a 65% stake in Australian women's fashion label Sass & Bide for A$42.25 million.
Fire dancing at the 2009 Lonsdale Street Glendi. The annual Melbourne Antipodes Festival is held on Lonsdale Street over a week in March, and has been held since 1987. The festival is renowned for its Lonsdale Street "Glendi" (Greek for "party") - a weekend-long event that is held to coincide with the Greek National Day (25 March).
Little Lon was the popular name for a slum and red-light district in Melbourne, Australia.. Archaeologists at work amongst building footings at Little Lon, in 2002. The area was roughly bounded by Lonsdale, Spring, Stephen (later Exhibition) and La Trobe streets.
Wesley Church was designed by Joseph Reed, who also designed the Melbourne Town Hall, the Scots' Church and the Independent Church (now St Michael’s) on Collins Street. The church is an early example in Melbourne of a fully-developed Gothic Revival style, executed in rugged bluestone, with a tall octagonal spire, and a smaller spire to the west.
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.
380 Melbourne (also known as 380 Lonsdale Street) is a residential and hotel skyscraper in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [2]Designed by Elenberg Fraser and developed by Brady Group, the project includes 728 residential apartments as well as 312 hotel rooms within a 67-level skyscraper, and reaches a height of 217.5 metres (714 feet).