Chatswood Chase Sydney

Chatswood Chase Sydney
Centre court
Location Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates 33°47′39″S 151°11′10″E / 33.794180°S 151.186019°E / -33.794180; 151.186019Coordinates: 33°47′39″S 151°11′10″E / 33.794180°S 151.186019°E / -33.794180; 151.186019
Opening date 1983
Management Vicinity Centres
Owner Vicinity Centres
No. of stores and services 204
No. of anchor tenants 3
Total retail floor area 63,815 m2 (686,899 sq ft)
No. of floors 4
Parking 2,441 spaces
Public transit access Chatswood railway station
Website www.chatswoodchasesydney.com.au/

Chatswood Chase Sydney (previously known as Chatswood Chase) is a shopping centre in the suburb of Chatswood in the lower North Shore of Sydney.[1]

Food court

Transport

The Epping to Chatswood rail link and the North Shore rail link offers frequent train services to Chatswood station located five minutes away from Chatswood Chase Sydney. Chatswood station will partially close in 2018 with the Epping to Chatswood link to convert to Sydney Metro.

Chatswood Chase Sydney has bus connections to Kingsford, Bondi Junction, Crows Nest, Balmoral, Northern Beaches including Frenchs Forest, Dee Why, Manly and surrounding suburbs. It is served by Sydney Buses and Metrobus with bus stops on Victoria Road.

Chatswood Chase Sydney also has multi level car parks with 2,441 spaces.

History

Chatswood Chase originally opened in 1983 and was the first large scale shopping centre after the opening of Wallace Way and Lemon Grove in the 1980s. It was the home to the only Myer store in NSW until the early 1990s then briefly became Grace Bros before closing altogether. In which made Chatswood being the only suburb in Sydney to have two Grace Bros. stores around this time. the space vacated by Grace Bros was replaced by David Jones.[2] In 2003, Chatswood Chase was purchased by Centro (now Vicinity Centres).

In 2007, Vicinity Centres proceeded with a large and extensive redevelopment, growing the centre’s gross lettable area by approximately 10,300 m². Total cost was around $185 million.[3]

The Trust previously reported the acquisition of an adjoining office building at 19 Havilah Street in Chatswood and has since also secured an option to purchase the access lane to Chatswood Chase off Malvern Avenue to facilitate the proposed redevelopment.[4]

This involved relocating Coles supermarket (formerly Coles New World) into a larger retail area, undertaking a major extension to the lower ground retail space, the introduction of a new food court, the addition of approximately 130 new car parking spaces and an upgrade to the Victoria Avenue entrance. Work on the expansion concluded in 2010 and the centre was renamed to Chatswood Chase Sydney.[5]

Apple opened its second retail store in Australia on 9 August 2008.[6]

In August 2012, Harvey Norman closed its store due to poor sales and was replaced by JB Hi-Fi.[7]

Tenants

Chatswood Chase Sydney has 63,815m² of floor space. The major retailers include David Jones, Kmart, Coles, Apple and JB Hi-Fi.

References

  1. ↑ "Chatswood Chase Sydney". www.vicinity.com.au. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  2. ↑ Inc., Willoughby District Historical Society,. "Suburbs - Chatswood CBD- History and Heritage - Willoughby District Historical Society Inc". www.willoughbydhs.org.au. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  3. ↑ "Chatswood Chase". Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  4. ↑ "Project: Chatswood Chase Shopping Centre - Refurbishment and Expansion (MP 06_0301)". 2011-03-30. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  5. ↑ Colonial First State Development announcements
  6. ↑ "Inside Apple's new Chatswood store". CNET. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  7. ↑ "Subscribe | theaustralian". www.theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
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