Names, names names.....Uniqlo, Marcs, Saba and M.J. Bale set for Emporium Melbourne

Names, names names.....Uniqlo, Marcs, Saba and M.J. Bale set for Emporium Melbourne
Nicola TrotmanDecember 7, 2020

As tenants keenly line up, the $575 million Colonial First State development Emporium Melbourne nears its scheduled December completion date.

It will be the first Melbourne site for Japanese retailer Uniqlo, joining the likes of British retailer Topshop who will open their second Melbourne store in Emporium Melbourne.

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The quarterly update released this week by CFS confirms recent retail leasing deals with lululemon, Marcs, Saba and M.J. Bale.

Previously announced stores include Coach, Carla Zampatti, Mulberry, Scanlan & Theodore among many others.

Uniqlo will lease 3,000 square metres of retail space over four floors – a larger store than the 2,600 square metre Topshop store over three levels.

Emporium Melbourne will replace the former Myer Lonsdale Street store and will offer over 225 stores of premium retail space over eight levels.

The gross leasable area of the complex is 48,000 square metres with Myer accounting for 7,000 square metres of retail space.

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Designed by Buchan Group and WonderWall from Japan, the heritage listed facades on both Lonsdale Street and Lt Bourke Street will be restored.

The complex will also link with department stores Myer and David Jones via Pedestrian Bridges and tunnels.

Emporium Melbourne is being built by Grocon and was at the heart of the dispute last year between Grocon and CFMEU.

The project commenced in February 2011 and retail trading is set to commence later this year.

Nicola Trotman

With a penchant for the written word, Nicola has built a career doing just this – now Creative Director at thriving Melbourne-based PR agency, Greenpoint Media.

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