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Highpoint Shopping Centre is a major shopping centre located in Maribyrnong, Victoria, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria and is the fourth largest shopping centre in Australia. The centre has 500 stores including a four-level Myer department store, a two-level David Jones department store, Harris Scarfe, Target, Big W, Zara, Topshop, Topman, Woolworths supermarket, Best and Less, Toys R Us, JB Hi-Fi and Hoyts cinemas and a Digital IMAX theatre. In 2011 Highpoint underwent a two-year $300 million two-stage redevelopment which added 100 new stores. Highpoint is Victoria's 2nd largest shopping centre and the 3rd largest in Australia boasting 500 stores, with an annual turnover of $778 million and over 15 million shoppers visiting each year.〔 It is the largest shopping centre serving Melbourne's western and north western suburbs, an area with a population of at least half a million people. == History == Highpoint is built on a hill which looks out over the Maribyrnong River to Melbourne's CBD, hence its name. An anti-aircraft battery operated on the site during World War II for protection of the surrounding military bases and ammunition works in Maidstone and Maribyrnong. The 50-acre site was previously a quarry, as can be seen by the quarry cliff face walls of the lower carparks. The land was sold by the City of Essendon for $1.85 million in April 1971, with permission required also from the City of Sunshine as the quarry was also located in that local government area.〔 Construction of the initial stage of the shopping complex cost $11 million. Named originally "Westland Shopping Centre"〔http://www.universalconcretepumping.com.au/attachments/highpoint_shopping_centre.pdf〕 then "Highpoint West Shopping Centre" it was later renamed "Highpoint City Shopping Centre". It is now marketed as "Highpoint". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Highpoint Shopping Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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