Chatswood Chase Sydney

Chatswood Chase Sydney

Centre court
Location	Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33°47′39″S 151°11′10″E
Opening date	1983
Management	Vicinity Centres
Owner	Vicinity Centres
No. of stores and services	204
No. of anchor tenants	3
Total retail floor area	63,815 m2 (686,899 sq ft)
No. of floors	4
Parking	2,441 spaces
Public transit access	Chatswood railway station
Website	www.chatswoodchasesydney.com.au/

Chatswood Chase Sydney (previously known as Chatswood Chase) is a shopping centre in the suburb of Chatswood in the lower North Shore of Sydney.

Food court

Transport

The Epping to Chatswood rail link and the North Shore rail link offers frequent train services to Chatswood station located five minutes away from Chatswood Chase Sydney. Chatswood station will partially close in 2018 with the Epping to Chatswood link to convert to Sydney Metro.

Chatswood Chase Sydney has bus connections to Kingsford, Bondi Junction, Crows Nest, Balmoral, Northern Beaches including Frenchs Forest, Dee Why, Manly and surrounding suburbs. It is served by Sydney Buses and Metrobus with bus stops on Victoria Road.

Chatswood Chase Sydney also has multi level car parks with 2,441 spaces.

History

Chatswood Chase originally opened in 1983 and was the first large scale shopping centre after the opening of Wallace Way and Lemon Grove in the 1980s. It was the home to the only Myer store in NSW until the early 1990s then briefly became Grace Bros before closing altogether. In which made Chatswood being the only suburb in Sydney to have two Grace Bros. stores around this time. the space vacated by Grace Bros was replaced by David Jones. In 2003, Chatswood Chase was purchased by Centro (now Vicinity Centres).

In 2007, Vicinity Centres proceeded with a large and extensive redevelopment, growing the centre’s gross lettable area by approximately 10,300 m². Total cost was around $185 million.

The Trust previously reported the acquisition of an adjoining office building at 19 Havilah Street in Chatswood and has since also secured an option to purchase the access lane to Chatswood Chase off Malvern Avenue to facilitate the proposed redevelopment.

This involved relocating Coles supermarket (formerly Coles New World) into a larger retail area, undertaking a major extension to the lower ground retail space, the introduction of a new food court, the addition of approximately 130 new car parking spaces and an upgrade to the Victoria Avenue entrance. Work on the expansion concluded in 2010 and the centre was renamed to Chatswood Chase Sydney.

Apple opened its second retail store in Australia on 9 August 2008.

In August 2012, Harvey Norman closed its store due to poor sales and was replaced by JB Hi-Fi.

Tenants

Chatswood Chase Sydney has 63,815m² of floor space. The major retailers include David Jones, Kmart, Coles, Apple and JB Hi-Fi.