The Jolimont Centre is a commercial building in

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, Australia. It is also the city's long-distance coach station.

History

In the late 1920s, a timber building named the Jolimont Building was erected in

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, on a block bounded by Northbourne Avenue, Alinga, Moore, and Rudd Streets. The building had originally been manufactured in England in 1899 for use at Jolimont railway station in

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.At last, a plan to develop the Jolimont site
'' Canberra Times'' 13 October 1981 page 2 It was partially damaged by fire in 1969, and was demolished in 1977. In 1978, approval was granted for the construction of a hotel complex and a long-distance coach terminal. After the project had not commenced in 1981, Lend Lease Development began work on a six-storey commercial and office complex, which was initially tenanted by the Department of Resources and Energy, the Canberra Tourist Bureau, Prime Television, Trans Australia Airlines, and radio station

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. During the construction phase, the building was sold to AMP. A two-storey

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was also built. It opened on 5 May 1983, with Ansett Pioneer and

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using the coach terminal for services to

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and

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. Later,

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, Deluxe Coachlines, McCafferty's, Murrays, Transborder Express, Trans City and

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began using the terminal. The 1993 Jolimont Centre siege saw the centre rammed by a vehicle rigged with petrol and gas canisters. The commercial space has since been converted to a Novotel hotel.

Coach operators

* Murrays to Narooma, Sydney and

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and

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Canberra - Melbourne via Bairnsdale
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References

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