Chadstone Shopping Centre

Chadstone Shopping Centre is a super regional shopping centre located in the inner south-eastern suburb of Malvern East in the city of Melbourne, Australia and is the biggest Shopping Centre in Australia. The centre opened on 3 October 1960 and was the first self‐contained regional shopping centre in Melbourne. It contains 129,924m2 of shop floor space, about 530 stores and more than 9300 free car parking spaces. Chadstone Shopping Centre is claimed to be the biggest shopping centre in the Southern Hemisphere.The centre, also known colloquially as "Chaddy", boasts major anchor stores such as the Myer and David Jones department stores, Coles, Woolworths and Aldi supermarkets, and Kmart and Target discount department stores as well as a Hoyts cinema multiplex, an AMF bowling alley, an Apple Store, Dick Smith and JB Hi-Fi electronics stores and more than 500 specialty stores, of which the majority are fashion-related, including numerous high-end labels. There are two food courts and also two office towers located at the southern side of the centre. It has as many as 68,000 visitors on its busiest trading days and attracts about 400,000 tourists a year from interstate and 200,000 from overseas.