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Melbourne Central Shopping Centre

This article is about a shopping centre in Melbourne, Australia. For the railway station, see Melbourne Central railway station.

Melbourne Central
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LocationMelbourne, Victoria, Australia
Coordinates37°48′37.42″S 144°57′47.32″E / 37.8103944°S 144.9631444°E / -37.8103944; 144.9631444
Opening date1991 (1991)[1]
DeveloperKumagai Gumi
ManagementGPT Group
OwnerGPT Group[2]
ArchitectKisho Kurokawa, Ashton Raggatt McDougall (major redevelopment)
No. of stores and services276[3]
No. of anchor tenants2[3]
Total retail floor area55,700 square metres (600,000 sq ft)[3]
No. of floors6[4]
Parking876[3]
Public transit accessMelbourne Central railway station, trams, buses
Websitemelbournecentral.com.au

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. Other parts of the complex include the Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, the underground Melbourne Central railway station and the heritage-listed Coop's Shot Tower.

The site of the present-day complex was earmarked for development in the early 1970s by the Melbourne City Council.[5] At the time, the State Government of Victoria had started constructing the City Loop underground railway with a station located on the site called Museum Station.[6] The main tower and complex was completed in 1991, designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa and the Kumagai Gumi architecture firm at a cost of $1.2 billion.[5][7] It has since been significantly renovated three times in 2001, 2005 and 2010.

Today the centre features a gross leasable area of 55,100 square metres (593,000 sq ft) spread over six floors.[2] The 20 storey glass conical structure over the Coop's Shot Tower is the largest of its kind in the world [5] and over 8.6 million passengers pass through the Melbourne Central station every year.[8]

  1. ^ Building Profile Archived 21 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Melbourne Central Tower
  2. ^ a b Retail Archived 14 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine, The GPT Group
  3. ^ a b c d "GPT – 2023 ANNUAL RESULT PROPERTY COMPENDIUM" (PDF). GPT Group. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Melbourne Central > Stores > Centre Maps". Archived from the original on 24 January 2009. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
  5. ^ a b c "Melbourne Central Heritage". Melbourne Central Shopping Centre. GPT. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  6. ^ Institute of Technology Bandung Java (September 1995). "Melbourne Central a Case Study in Post-Modern Urbanization". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  7. ^ Philip Hopkins (23 June 2010). "Retail revamp for Melbourne Central". The Age. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  8. ^ "Annual metropolitan train station entries 2022-23". Data Vic. Victorian Department of Transport & Planning. Retrieved 24 May 2024.

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