Southpoint Shopping Centre (formerly known as Hillsdale Plaza) is a shopping centre in the suburb of Hillsdale in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia, south-east of the CBD.

Transport

Southpoint Shopping Centre has

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bus connections to the

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and Eastern Suburbs, as well as local surrounding suburbs. The majority of its bus services are located on Bunnerong Road outside the centre. There is no railway station at Hillsdale; the nearest station is located at

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. Southpoint Shopping Centre also has a multi level car park with 423 spaces.

History

Hillsdale Plaza opened in 1962, as an open air shopping plaza featuring a Woolworths Food Fair supermarket, Benjamins Department Store, a ten pin bowling alley and 40 specialty stores. In 1980, the centre was renamed Southpoint Shopping Centre, coinciding with a substantial redevelopment which opened in stages between 1980 and 1982, featuring Franklins,

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, Woolworths, Nock and Kirby and 31 other stores. In 2001,

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was closed as part of a wider range of store closures. It was replaced by BI-LO, which operated until the shopping centre's redevelopment in 2003. In 2003, Southpoint Shopping Centre was demolished apart from Woolworths and four stores that continued to trade during the $55 million redevelopment. Southpoint Shopping Centre reopened in 2004 as part of a

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containing 110 apartments on 12 floors. The centre featured

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, Coles, Woolworths and around 25 stores. The Coles tenancy was originally planned to be occupied by former tenant BI-LO, but parent company Coles had decided to begin phasing out the BI-LO brand during construction. Coles which operated until its closure on 21 September 2016. It was replaced by

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which opened in 2017, and

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which opened in 2018. In April 2017, Trade Secret was rebranded to

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Tenants

Southpoint Shopping Centre has 12,000m² of floor space. The major retailers include

and Woolworths.

References

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{{Shopping centres in New South Wales Shopping centres in Sydney Shopping malls established in 1992 1992 establishments in Australia