Broadway Shopping Centre is a large shopping centre A shopping mall, shopping center, or shopping centre is a building or set of buildings which contain retail units, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit in Sydney Sydney is the largest city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million (2008 estimate). It is the state capital of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British colony in Australia. Situated on an inlet of the Tasman Sea, Sydney is built on low hills surrounding Port Jackson. It was established in 1788, located in the Broadway Broadway is a road in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The road constitutes the border between the suburbs of Ultimo and Chippendale (to the south). Broadway is also an urban locality locality. It features a Kmart Kmart Australia is a discount department store chain, that operates in Australia . Wesfarmers (formerly the Coles Group) operates Kmart Australia Ltd under license from Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States-based Sears Holdings Corporation (formerly the Kmart Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Company), Coles Coles Supermarkets is an Australian supermarket chain owned by Wesfarmers . With over 740 stores nationally and more than 92,000 employees, Coles currently has second-largest market share behind Woolworths Supermarkets, BiLo, food court A food court is a plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dining. Food courts may be found in shopping malls and airports, and in various regions may be a standalone development, Hoyts Hoyts Exhibition manages 450 screens across 40 Australian and 9 New Zealand cinema complexes; making it Australia's second largest cinema chain. Val Morgan, the cinema advertising arm of the Hoyts group, dominates the cinema advertising market with over 95% market share. Finally, Hoyts Distribution is the largest independent film distributor in 12 screen cinemas A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre, film theater or cinema is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures, Target Target Australia Pty Ltd is an Australian department store chain owned by Wesfarmers . It operates 268 stores with its head office located in North Geelong, Victoria. It sells clothing, cosmetics, toys, homewares, electrical and electronics goods. Rights to the Target logo and name were granted to Myer Emporium Ltd. (now Coles Group), by the, and well over 100 specialty shops.
History
The Broadway shopping centre is located in one of the two former Grace Bros Broadway buildings which opened in 1923, the other building now housing university student accommodation. The current shopping centre opened in 1998. In 2007, an additional floor of shops was added to the original centre. On February 12, 2008, just after 1:30pm a fire was reported due to an electrical substation fire in the lower levels of the shopping centre. No one was injured, however emergency services rescued shoppers trapped in lifts, which had no power due to the fire. [1]
References
- ^ The Sydney Morning Herald (2008). Explosion sparks Broadway Shopping Centre evacuation. Retrieved February 12 February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 322 days remaining until the end of the year, 2008 2008 was a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini era (or Common Era).
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