Uptown, Brisbane

The Myer Centre, Brisbane
corner of Albert and Elizabeth Streets

The Myer Centre is located between the Queen Street Mall and Elizabeth Street in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is an eight-floor shopping complex which includes Queensland's largest Myer department store, and is open to the public seven days a week. The Myer Centre has the added benefit of being the hub for the Brisbane CBD. Most buses originate and end near or under the Myer Centre. The Myer Centre Car Park is also one of the largest car parks in the heart of the city with easy access to everything in the city.

Stores

The Myer Centre is home to approximately 170 stores including:

• Myer
• Coles Supermarket
• Target (2 level discount department store)
• ABC Shop
• Mind Games (a chess, board game, jigsaw and puzzle store)
• Australian Geographic shop
• Lowes Menswear
• Best and Less
• Newsagencies
• Pharmacies
• Food court (including Starbucks)
• Book shops, computer shops
• EzyDVD
• Electrical goods stores
• Razor shop
• Souvenir shops
• Birch Carroll & Coyle cinema complex

and many more.

Transport

Car

There are four levels of paid car parking available in the basement of the complex.

Bus

Queen Street Bus Station on the Albert Street level of the complex.

Train

The Myer Centre is also within easy walking distance of three train stations:

• Central Station
• South Brisbane Station
• Roma Street Station.

History

A Myer store originally extended from Queen Street to Adelaide Street, from the early 1900s, before The Myer Centre shopping complex opened in April 1988.

The area where the cinemas now are was originally used as a fun park called 'Tops'. It was closed down and demolished in 2001, with the fun park parts sold off. The fun park comprised various small shops, an amusement centre, a 'swing ship', a 'dragon train' and a 'ferris wheel'. When the theme park was operating, screams of excitement and terror could be heard from the patrons of both the swing ship and the dragon train.

In the past, the centre's tenants included fairly substantial nightclubs. In the early 1990's, the basement area (subsequently occupied by Sizzler) hosted "The Funkyard", a nightspot with an emphasis on the "alternative" guitar rock of the era. The Funkyard hosted live gigs; for example, the U.S. band Destroy All Monsters played there, with Ron Asheton of the Stooges on guitar. Another former tenant of the centre which played host to live music was the "Metropolis" nightclub, adjacent to the bus tunnel on Level "A", near the place now occupied by glamour photography shop "Starshots". Irish "shoegaze" band My Bloody Valentine played at Metropolis in 1991, supported by Straitjacket Fits (from New Zealand) and the Underground Lovers.

Photos of The Myer Centre, Brisbane

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  Escalators in the central area of The Myer Centre
  ( The Myer Centre is decorated for Christmas, 2005 )
• Window at The Myer Centre - on Queen Street Mall
  Window at The Myer Centre - on Queen Street Mall
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  Sign for the former Sizzler restaurant at The Myer Centre (in Elizabeth Street)
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  The former Sizzler restaurant at The Myer Centre
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  Peter Ustinov at a book signing session at the ABC Shop, in The Myer Centre (photo taken in either 1992 or 1993)
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  Peter Ustinov at a book signing session at the ABC Shop, in The Myer Centre (photo taken in either 1992 or 1993)
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  Peter Ustinov at a book signing session at the ABC Shop, in The Myer Centre (photo taken in either 1992 or 1993)