Melbourne shopping centre upgrades: Westfield Knox, Waverley Gardens
From Knox to Rosebud, shopping centres across Melbourne are set to be transformed with new stores and dining areas.
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With retail finally set to reopen after Melbourne’s long lockdown, a number of shopping centres are preparing to undergo huge makeovers.
From the long-awaited upgrade of Westfield Knox, to a new fresh food precinct at Waverley Gardens, check out what’s planned.
WESTFIELD KNOX
Aldi, Woolworths, and an upgraded library are set to open at Westfield Knox in Wantirna South, as the centre finally gets a makeover.
Renovations, which should get under way this year, include a casual dining precinct with outdoor children’s play area surrounded by a cafe.
Westfield owner Scentre Group is also putting in a fresh food market and food catering experience near the supermarkets.
The group’s development director, Stewart White, said there would be more announcements about shops later this year.
Mr White said these would include more fresh food, dining, fashion, beauty, homewares, youth, education, sport commercial, home, DIY, financial, health and medical.
WAVERLEY GARDENS
Popular fruit and vegetable store Henrys Mercato is coming to Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre in Mulgrave, part of a huge new fresh food precinct.
Located in the east wing of the centre, Super Fresh, expected to open this year, will become one of the largest fresh fruit and vegetable precincts in Melbourne’s southeast, with the introduction of new stores, including Henrys Mercato and Indian and Asian grocers.
Aldi will also be moving into the precinct. It follows the closure of Target at the centre.
PAKENHAM PLACE
A new Aldi is part of a long-awaited revamp of Pakenham Place Shopping Centre, including new restaurants, cafes and specialty retailers.
“Pakenham Place will be completely transformed to include a new supermarket, fresh food, restaurants, cafes and a variety of specialty retailers providing goods and services,” the centre’s website states.
Leader previously reported the Target at Pakenham Place shut its doors in June, with hundreds of residents slamming the move as “disappointing”.
BOX HILL CENTRAL
Box Hill Central shopping centre is set for a huge makeover, with new stores and restaurants set to transform the busy precinct.
Vicinity Centres has started construction works at the centre, the first stage of its plan to create an integrated world-class mixed-use precinct in Box Hill.
The rundown mall is set for a complete refresh, including new facades, floors, ceilings, furniture, lighting, store fronts and dining.
A number of new major and speciality retailers, including a new Coles supermarket, will launch in mid-2022. The names of the new stores are set to be revealed in coming months.
BURWOOD ONE
A popular Whitehorse shopping centre home to Australia’s first Kmart store is set to get a new look, more stores and parking in a $20m upgrade.
The works at Burwood One will focus on the western side of the U-shaped shopping centre, which boasts its dining and food precinct and its Coles supermarket.
A new facade, signage and two extra levels will be built to provide more space for new shops in the precinct.
The works are set to commence in the second quarter of 2022 and be finished by mid-2023.
CHIRNSIDE PARK SHOPPING CENTRE
Chirnside Park shopping centre renovations are still a while off after management put a temporary hold on plans during Covid.
Leader previously reported centre owner GPT deferred the start of redevelopments across some of its Melbourne holdings during the pandemic, including Chirnside Park.
A multimillion-dollar expansion of the Yarra Valley centre was given the green light from Yarra Ranges Council in January 2018.
GPT has assured shoppers the two-storey redevelopment, which included 30 new shops, a second food court, childcare, office space and a medical centre, had not been dropped.
ROSEBUD PLAZA
Makeovers are on the cards for a trio of Mornington Peninsula shopping centres.
Rosebud Plaza has now released more detailed plans for its $9.3m revamp, which includes demolishing a Woolworths supermarket and bringing six new tenants to the site.
Mornington Village Shopping Centre has applied for more time for its plan to extend the Main St shopping centre and Mornington Central is set to announce soon how it will fill the space left by Target – which recently exited the complex.
BRANDON PARK
The owners of Brandon Park Shopping Centre want to build a hotel and apartments at the Mulgrave complex.
Monash Council Mayor Brian Little said the council had received three planning applications associated with the centre.
One of which provides for improvements to the existing shopping centre and loading docks in anticipation of a potential new tenant in the old Kmart tenancy and two proposing a hotel and apartments incorporated into the existing shopping centre, rebuilding the decked carpark near the corner of Ferntree Gully Rd and Brandon Park Drive.
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