Casuarina Square, the largest
shopping centre
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The first known collec ...
in the
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory ...
, is located in
Casuarina
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in
Darwin's northern suburbs. The shopping centre is built to the building code for Tropical Cyclones, due to cyclones that sweep through the area such as
Cyclone Tracy
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from 24 to 26 December 1974. The small, developing easterly storm had been observed passing clear of the city initially, but then turned t ...
in 1974.
Casuarina Square was built in 1973, the shopping centre contains over 180 businesses including two supermarkets (
Coles and
Woolworths), and two
discount department stores
A discount store or discounter offers a retail format in which products are sold at prices that are in principle lower than an actual or supposed "full retail price". Discounters rely on bulk purchasing and efficient distribution to keep down cos ...
(
Big W
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and
Kmart
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The company was inc ...
), and a 7-screen BCC Cinemas.
The GPT group owns and manages the shopping centre and since building the centre before a change of ownership t
Sentinel Property Groupin April 2022, it has undergone four major redevelopments. The most recent was a three-stage redevelopment that was completed in December 1998 adding 63 specialty stores and the 7-screen BCC Cinemas. Since then the average number of visits per week is greater than twice the population of Darwin.
Casuarina Square
On 1 April 2022, Casuarina Square was bought by Sentinel Property Group for $400 million.
Transport
Casuarina Square is accessible from Trower Road and by the bus routes of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 21.
The shopping centre is located 14 km north of Darwin city centre
Darwin City (referred to as ''Darwin city centre'' or ''The CBD'' (Central Business District) is a suburb in metropolitan Darwin which comprises the original settlement, the central business district, parkland and other built-up areas. It is t ...
.
The shopping centre has over 2,400 parking spaces including undercover parking. Access to the car parks is from Trower Road, Dripstone Road and Bradshaw Terrace.
See also
*List of shopping centres in Australia
This is a list of notable shopping centres in Australia. It does not include street shopping strips such as Chapel Street, Melbourne or Oxford Street, Sydney which were prevalent in Australian cities until the 1960s.
Australian Capital Territ ...
* Public transport in Darwin
References
External links
*
Casuarina Square homepage
{{Darwin, Northern Territory landmarks
Shopping centres in Darwin, Northern Territory
Shopping malls established in 1974
Tourist attractions in Darwin, Northern Territory