Comments on: Defeated Myer and determined David Jones tear out Melbourne’s historic retail heart

By: Myer elevators art deco doors hocked on Ebay - Melbourne Heritage Watch - Your Trusted Victorian voice for Historic and Architectural Preservation and Conservation

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:17:42 +0000

[...] happens when you’re allowed to rip the guts out of a heritage listed building (not to mention two entire city blocks). Myer it seems would sell its soul for a quid these days, but I guess its hard to care when [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:34:31 +0000

This all started with the GPO development. The so called “heritage experts” who added the terrible modern extension to the GPO basically paved the way for the destruction of Little Bourke Street. What a real shame that such a large area of Melbourne’s CBD is being unnecessarily modernised.

By: “Docklands Disease” spreading to Melbourne [Melbourne Heritage Watch - Your Trusted Victorian voice for Historic and Architectural Preservation and Conservation]

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:59:49 +0000

[...] as well. And, as we have seen in the case of QV and the department store precinct, this has had a truly devastating effect on the heritage and human scale of the city. Whole blocks are being consolidated, swallowing groups of old buildings with them. Often the [...]

By: Call to arms for Lonsdale House [Melbourne Heritage Watch - Your Trusted Victorian voice for Historic and Architectural Preservation and Conservation]

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:43:33 +0000

[...] you want to save this building you must act quickly as like the rest of the Myer and David Jones blocks it may well be a case of here today gone tomorrow [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:41:25 +0000

I can’t fathom how Melbourne City Council could let this happen. I haven’t seen urban vandalism of this scale in our city since the 1950s. I used to love this part of the city and now it is wrecked forever.

By: heritagepoliceman

heritagepoliceman — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:27:42 +0000

Its not Myer itself doing any of this demolition / redevelopment – the buildings are all owned by Colonial First State (formerly Colonial Mutual I think – one of those banks that have turned into developers – they are also financing the St Kilda triangle). Myer will be tennants of the reconstructed Bourke Street building only, and the Lonsdale Street block will be – what exactly ? something like the QV, but with facades propped up all around.

By: Tania

Tania — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:45:19 +0000

Whatever little bit of respect I had left for Myer is long gone, and David Jones have greatly disappointed in their pathetic attempts to keep up with their rival. It’s so sad to have those beautiful parts of the city gone, especially when both department stores would have been far better off making the most of their heritage assets but are just too blind and too stupid to see it. Damn them both.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:28:53 +0000

Precisely why I’m no longer shopping at either; if I want modern shopping I have lacklustre Chadstone as an option.