CBD retail – realestatesource

MELBOURNE will soon have a choc-filled centre, with Swiss chocolatier Lindt confirming it will open a “flagship” chocolate bar in the CBD.

Australia’s fifth Lindt Chocolat Cafe will open in July, within the walls of a former banking chamber, at 271 Collins Street, a space occupied until recently as the global headquarters for the National Australia Bank.

Lindt has leased 200 square metres of refurbished retail space – about twice the size of a standard city shop – and will open a specialist chocolate flavoured cafe and bakery, to rival nearby caffeine-concourses Degraves Street, Flinders Lane and Centre Place.

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New Retail Laneway Planned For Melbourne’s Southern Cross Hotel Site

July 19, 2009 Marc Pallisco CBD retail

FORTY FIVE years after Beatles fans famously made the street’s around Southern Cross Hotel a chaos zone, the next stage of the site’s redevelopment into a mixed-use working and shopping mecca is about to be unveiled.

Southern Cross Lane, the city’s latest polished laneway, will open in mid-October, wedged between two shiny glass office buildings connecting Little Collins and Bourke streets.