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Image Arena Location Capacity Team(s) Sydney SuperDome: Sydney, New South Wales: 21,032 Basketball: Sydney Kings Netball: New South Wales Swifts* Netball: Giants Netball* : Rod Laver Arena •
Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre (1983–1998) Lexus Centre (2004–2010) Westpac Centre (2010–2015) Holden Centre (2015–2022) Location: Olympic Blvd and Batman Ave Olympic Park Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia: Owner: Melbourne & Olympic Parks Trust: Capacity: 7,200 (1983–1998) 5,500 (Original) Construction; Broke ground: October ...
Melbourne Central is a large shopping centre, office, and public transport hub in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The main tower is 211-metre (692 ft) high, making it one of the tallest buildings in Melbourne at the time it was built in 1991.
Queen Victoria Building c. 1924 including Queens Walk Arcade, the first of a significant group of buildings demolished on the site of the 1968 temporary square.. When Sir Bernard Evans, architect, and city councillor, was Lord Mayor of Melbourne in 1961, he was of the view that a city square should be created between the town hall and the cathedral instead of a civic plaza with a new town hall ...
Chadstone Shopping Centre (colloquially known as Chaddy) is a shopping centre located in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Malvern East. Chadstone Shopping Centre is the largest indoor shopping centre in Australia by both floor area and number of stores, as well claims to be the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. The centre opened on 3 ...
The Block Arcade is a historic shopping arcade in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [2] Constructed between 1891 and 1893, it is considered one of the late Victorian era's finest shopping arcades and ranks among Melbourne's most popular tourist attractions.
As retail presence increased with department store Buckley & Nunn opening a succession of buildings in 1851 and rival Myer in 1911, the street was often compared to London's Oxford Street. Melbourne's first theatre opened on Bourke Street as the Pavilion (1841), and by the late 1840s the east end was established as Melbourne's main ...
On 1 December 1882, the railway line from Melbourne to Camberwell was extended to Lilydale. At this time, the Lilydale line had only a single track, and used a token-based system of signalling. On 12 August 1889, Blackburn was designated a 'crossing station', meaning that it had a loop line to allow trains to pass each other.