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Shopping centre or retail premises

Type - Shopping centre or retail premises
1-3 Park Street
Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society Building
Bankstown Square
Beneficial House
Berry Square
Big Bear Supermarket
Casula Mall shopping centre
City Bank House
Darrell Lea Shop
Double Bay shopping centre
Dudley's Emporium
Dymocks Building
Engadine Court
Fairlight shopping centre
Galeries Victoria
Goldring House Randwick
Gowings Building
Harry's Cafe de Wheels
Hay Street Chambers
Henry Deane Plaza
Italian Forum
Kien Hay Centre
Macquarie Centre
Market City
Marrickville Metro
Miranda Fair
Northbridge Plaza
Oddfellows Hall Woollahra
Queen Victoria Building
Roselands Shopping Centre
Sailors' Home
Soul Pattinson Chemist
St Ives Shopping Village
The Eastwood Centre
Top Ryde City
Totem Shopping Centre Balgowlah
Warringah Mall
West Lindfield Neighbourhood Shopping Centre
Westfield Hornsby
Westfield Liverpool
Westfield Parramatta

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Shopping centre or retail premises

1-3 Park Street

Eight storey retail building constructed on the site of two previous Bebarfald shops.

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Australian Mutual Fire Insurance Society Building

Victorian Free Classical style office and retail block built for an insurance business on the site of the Surry Arms Hotel. With a fine modelled stone facade and well articulated corner elevation design, it has been a city landmark for over 100 years. In the 1970s it had housed Grahame Book Company, a prominent publishing house from the 1940s to the 1980s.

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Bankstown Square

One of Sydney's first major shopping malls, located in Bankstown in Sydney's south-west.

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Beneficial House

Brick Georgian revival building at 285-287 George Street North near Wynyard that was originally designed and built as a department store for the menswear retailer Peapes in 1922. In the 1970s it was converted into an office building.

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Berry Square

Shopping and leisure precinct in North Sydney.

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Big Bear Supermarket

Shopping centre at Neutral Bay.

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Casula Mall shopping centre

Shopping centre opened in 1986 with a Coles supermarket, a K Mart discount department store and about 40 specialty shops.

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City Bank House

Office complex with street level retail premises which was constructed for City Bank after fire destroyed their main branch on the corner of Pitt and Moore Streets (Martin Place) in 1890. A facade of Pyrmont stone in Italian Renaissance style with several sculptures over the entrance presented an elegant frontage to Pitt Street whilst inside could be found the latest electric lighting and hydraulic lifts. The building facade now forms an entry to Skygarden.

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Darrell Lea Shop

Built for an ironmonger it was soon converted to an hotel which hosted regular billiards competitions for patrons. Threatened with demolition when George Street was widened in the 1920s and surviving severe fire damage in 1944, it was purchased by Darrell Lea in 1957 and became the flagship store for the confectionery business for 55 years. It closed in 2012 when the business was placed in administration.

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Double Bay shopping centre

Retail shopping centre serving Double Bay.

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Dudley's Emporium

Suburban emporium on the corner of Anzac Parade and Maroubra Road which included a small cinema, stores for produce, hardware, groceries, draperies, refreshments, chemist, butchery and residence. It was established to provide services for the growing suburb which had been rapidly developed by Herbert Dudley.

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Dymocks Building

Office and multi-storey retail arcade building in George Street designed by architect F H B Wilton, on the site occupied in part by Dymocks bookshop since 1890. Formally known as The Block, it was built in Commercial Palazzo style and reflected the retail optimism and less elite bazaar concept of 1920s shopping. The site had earlier been occupied by the Royal Hotel and Theatre Royal.

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Engadine Court

Retail shopping centre opened in 1990.

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Fairlight shopping centre

Collection of local shops originally developed along the northern side of Sydney Road in the early twentieth century.

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Galeries Victoria

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Shopping complex on George Street below the Citigroup office block.

Goldring House Randwick

Two-storey stuccoed brick row of four shops fronting Avoca Street in Randwick constructed by William Mears. The land was originally part of a grant acquired by Judge Thomas Callaghan in 1853.

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Gowings Building

Built as a department store in Commercial Palazzo style used for inter-war commercial buildings, it has always been associated with Gowings retail business since the first store on the site in 1868. The building now houses retail, restaurant and hotel premises.

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Harry's Cafe de Wheels

Pie cart which has become an iconic tourist attraction and late night food stop for generations of Sydneysiders and visiting sailors. Now in a fixed location at Woolloomooloo it was started by Harry Edwards and has been visited by many celebrities some of whom are remembered in the murals on the cart.

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Hay Street Chambers

Small sandstone building originally used as a bank but which has since played many roles including cafe, shoe store and cake shop.

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Henry Deane Plaza

Commercial development of the area between the Railway Square bus station and the Devonshire Street Tunnel entrance to Central Station. It includes a retail plaza, the Henry Deane Building and Gateway House.

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Italian Forum

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Residential and shopping complex built around a central plaza off Norton Street in Leichhardt.

Kien Hay Centre

Retail and office building on the corner of Hay and Sussex Streets in Haymarket that was originallly built as a temperance hotel called the Great Western Coffee Palace on land resumed for slum clearance. It became a licensed hotel in 1916 and renamed the Burlington Hotel. In 1965 it was the scene of a demonstration protesting against the hotel's policy to refuse admission to Aboriginal patrons. In the 1980s it was converted into the Kien Hay Centre, containing retail and offices.

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Macquarie Centre

Shopping centre opened at Ryde in 1981.

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Market City

A 42-storey building occupying the area bounded by Quay, Hay and Thomas Streets, and Ultimo Road, opened in 1997. Comprises The Peak apartments above a commercial area which includes Paddy's Markets.

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Marrickville Metro

Small local shopping mall in Marrickville, built on the site of the Vicars Woollen Mill in 1987.
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Miranda Fair

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Shopping centre on the Kingsway, Miranda which opened in 1964.

Northbridge Plaza

Shopping centre on Sailors Bay Road, Northbridge.

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Oddfellows Hall Woollahra

Masonic hall initiated by the Loyal Rose of Denmark, No 39 Lodge of the Manchester United Independent Order of Oddfellows. In the 1880s it also hosted dances.

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Queen Victoria Building

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Grand domed sandstone arcade in the centre of the city which was saved from demolition in the 1980s and restored to its Federation Romanesque glory. Previously the site had been the municipal markets designated by Governor Macquarie and its current retail tenants continue the tradition.

Roselands Shopping Centre

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One of the first fully enclosed shopping malls in Australia.

Sailors' Home

Four storey residential and office building currently used as a restaurant and gallery complex.

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Soul Pattinson Chemist

Three storey Italianate style retail building which has been occupied by the same business since it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1886. It retains the original signs and winged phoenix on the facade and Victorian cast iron columns and mosaic tiles in the retail area.

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St Ives Shopping Village

Shopping centre on Mona Vale Road St Ives established in the 1960s.

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The Eastwood Centre

Multi-level shopping centre in Rowe Street, Eastwood.

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Top Ryde City

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Large shopping centre in Ryde, which first opened in 1957, and was redeveloped in 1986 and 2007.

Totem Shopping Centre Balgowlah

Early American-style shopping centre in Balgowlah, incorporating a tenpin bowling alley.

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Warringah Mall

Large shopping centre in the suburb of Brookvale on Sydney's northern beaches.

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West Lindfield Neighbourhood Shopping Centre

Shopping centre.

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Westfield Hornsby

Large shopping centre in Hornsby.

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Westfield Liverpool

Large shopping centre in Liverpool.

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Westfield Parramatta

Large shopping centre in Parramatta.

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