News & Discussion: CBD Retail

[Mpol]

Thanks for the heads up mate. Will do!

[crawf]

make sure you all check out the "gallery on Waymouth". Its where the old FAD bar used to be on Waymouth St, and they've spent over $1million turning it into an uber cool 3 level restaurant and bar, including a rooftop bar, Very nicely done

It looks pretty cool!, next location for Sen Adel meet up?
http://www.galleryonwaymouth.com.au

[Waewick]

I should be done that way next month

looks good

[Will]

From the Messenger:

Gallery fresh from the pages of a Magazine

newsLocal News06 May 10 @ 12:01pm by Emily Charrison



ARTY: Joshua Fanning has opened a new exhibition space in Clubhouse Lane, in the City's West End, called Magazine Gallery.Picture: Roy Van der Vegt

A cool little artspace - inspired by New York’s Soho and Melbourne’s backstreet gems - is now on the city’s doorstep.

Hidden behind a wrought iron fence in Clubhouse Lane, the just-opened Magazine Gallery aims to show the best of Adelaide’s emerging contemporary art scene.

Under the direction of the gallery’s brainchild Joshua Fanning, artists can hire the space for exhibitions of up to a fortnight and will be charged 20 per cent commission from sales.

“The reason behind it is to give artists that would usually be in a pub or restaurant an actual space,” says Fanning, an ex-ABC journalist and former reporter for national current affairs program The Wire.

“The gallery itself serves as a bridging platform for artists stuck between pub-wall exhibitions and Adelaide’s high-end commercial galleries.”

Fanning started the venture with Owen Lindsay after their street magazine Merge went bust earlier this year.

“After the publisher pulled out of funding I just decided commercially we couldn’t make it work to print out a $7000 magazine each month.

“But then I thought we could certainly put the energy and creativity into something else.”

Fanning says the gallery, which will also house fashion from undiscovered designers, will help “rejuvenate” the West End, particularly when it opens for selected evening exhibitions.

“The West End really needs a bridge from what is a vibrant day economy to a night economy.

“After the shops shut the place is dead but I’m hoping this will change that.”

Magazine Gallery, Clubhouse Lane, Monday to Thursday 10am-5pm, Friday 10am-9pm and Saturday 11am-3pm.

[Mants]

i heard a rumour that american apparel are closing down.
no great loss really.

[Prince George]

I guess that gallery is in the Merge Magazine headquarters.

[Nathan]

I guess that gallery is in the Merge Magazine headquarters.

Actually, it looks like it's where Value King was.

[vik_man]

i heard a rumour that american apparel are closing down.
no great loss really.

noo! i quite like the shop

they had to close today because of the flood damage

[Will]

From the City messenger:

Fashionable additions to Rundle St

newsLocal News20 May 10 @ 12:01pm by Emily Charrison


FASHIONISTAS, start saving your dosh because another two big-name designers are coming to Rundle St.

US footwear mogul Steve Madden will open his only Adelaide shop at the former Sync Shoes site, on the corner of Union St, in July.

The other brand will take over the Gripp Jeans store on the left-hand side of Rundle St mid next month, however the building’s landlord, Steve Maras, was tight-lipped on revealing the name until closer to the opening.

“All I can say is that it is one of Australia’s best designers,” he told the City Messenger this week.

Meanwhile the new Alannah Hill store, originally due to open on May 14, will now open its doors on June 2.

The delay is being blamed on the shop fit-out taking longer than expected.

In an email, Ms Hill said she wanted to match the design of the shop with the facade of the 19th century building at 269-271 Rundle St, with the original metal columns and plaster cornicing being restored.

The shop will also feature vintage Italian chandeliers and changerooms complete with floor to ceiling Hollywood lights, silk wall coverings, custom-made fringed ottomans, crystal wall lights and vintage hot pink flower wall hooks.

“The interior of my stores is so important to me,” Ms Hill said.

“I am always on the look out for ideas that reflect my girly whimsical clothing.

“Ideally I like to create a little magical world where customers feel excited, charmed and loved.”

[Omicron]

It's at times like this that I wish Rundle St was just a little bit longer than it is, and with fewer gargantuan multi-storey carparks completely separating it from Rundle Mall.

[Wayno]

I spotted today what is probably a new-ish shop in Rundle Mall, on the eastern side of the arcade leading into David Jones.

Aesop sells nice smelling things-n-stuff (soaps, etc), but it's the funky look of the place that caught my eye.

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[Nathan]

Not sure about it being longer, but agreed on less multi storey carparks. Both the carparks, and low quality shops that inhabit their ground floor tenancies, really separate the mall from the good part of Rundle St

[AtD]

on the left-hand side of Rundle St

What?

[Omicron]

on the left-hand side of Rundle St

What?

Topwise if you're facing Wednesday.

[Ben]

Wayno that shop has been there about 18 months since MARCS closed

I belive the new store to Rundle Street is Morrisons - nothing exciting as far as i'm concerned. I hope I'm wrong but this is what i've heard.