News & Discussion: CBD Retail

[GrowAdelaide]

Kobe does something similar called Luminarie which runs for two weeks up until Xmas eve.

[monotonehell]

Too gaudy for Antic. He doesn't like the big tree in Victoria Square. He's been pushing for nativity scenes.

Please be a joke. Please be a joke. Please be a joke. Please be a joke.

Is this a joke?

[Nathan]

Too gaudy for Antic. He doesn't like the big tree in Victoria Square. He's been pushing for nativity scenes.

Please be a joke. Please be a joke. Please be a joke. Please be a joke.

Is this a joke?

Sorry, deadly serious.

From his opinion piece last week:

a gaudy, unnecessarily flashy Christmas tree in Victoria Square. The kind of installation which wouldn’t look out of place on the Las Vegas Strip. The Christmas tree is meant to be a symbol of everlasting life, not a homage to the carbon offset benefits of LED lighting.

It is for this reason that I have lobbied to bring some meaning back to the city’s celebrations and encouragingly, Christmas 2017 will see the Adelaide City Council endeavouring to bring more of the magic back. Victoria Square will be a better focal point and will pay homage to the true meaning of Christmas by including a nativity scene and other traditional decorations.

[Nathan]

I think lighting ala northern hemisphere shopping streets ignores the realities of the Adelaide Christmas season — with longer days and daylight savings, the mall isn't open when it's dark (aside from maybe half an hour at the end of Friday lat night trading, and the 24hr shopping day they do).

[Ben]

What is a traditional Christmas decoration if not a Christmas tree? Is he going to hang holly and ivy from the street posts? Maybe replace the street lights with candles or gas lit lanterns?

[Nathan]

Red bows tied to lamp posts apparently. And everything has to say 'Merry Christmas', because #waronchristmas.

[monotonehell]

I'm okay with everything saying "Merry Christmas" but nativity scenes are for parochial village churchyards. Adelaide is a capital city. Glam it up.

What Nathan says about summer sun is true. But some decent lighting would be good because even when the shops are shut, Rundle Mall is well patronised these days. It's not the ghost town after 5:30 it used to be. It needs decorations that both look good in the day as well as night.

[ChillyPhilly]

Too gaudy for Antic. He doesn't like the big tree in Victoria Square. He's been pushing for nativity scenes.

Please be a joke. Please be a joke. Please be a joke. Please be a joke.

Is this a joke?

Sorry, deadly serious.

From his opinion piece last week:

a gaudy, unnecessarily flashy Christmas tree in Victoria Square. The kind of installation which wouldn’t look out of place on the Las Vegas Strip. The Christmas tree is meant to be a symbol of everlasting life, not a homage to the carbon offset benefits of LED lighting.

It is for this reason that I have lobbied to bring some meaning back to the city’s celebrations and encouragingly, Christmas 2017 will see the Adelaide City Council endeavouring to bring more of the magic back. Victoria Square will be a better focal point and will pay homage to the true meaning of Christmas by including a nativity scene and other traditional decorations.

Those 'traditional' things like nativity scenes can be found just beyond the ACC boundary at West End Brewery every year. Hopefully Antic realises this.

[GrowAdelaide]

Fear of the spectacular.

[The Scooter Guy]

Heard from Sports Card World, according to Facebook that a new Foodland will be built as part of the Citi Centre Arcade upgrade project.

[timtam20292]

Off topic but in response to other posts on here, the big Christmas tree has once again gone up in Victoria Square

[monotonehell]

Heard from Sports Card World, according to Facebook that a new Foodland will be built as part of the Citi Centre Arcade upgrade project.

Another rumour for a Foodland. So it's looking like Woolies or Foodland.

[Patrick_27]

Heard from Sports Card World, according to Facebook that a new Foodland will be built as part of the Citi Centre Arcade upgrade project.

Another rumour for a Foodland. So it's looking like Woolies or Foodland.

A Foodland will hold up well on that side of the city, with residential growth expected to start in the next coupe of years and the expanding Uni Adelaide campus it'll surely find it's place. That said, if the commentary from Sports World's Facebook is correct and they are intending to retain all tenants on the Rundle Mall frontage, I still feel there needs to be a revision of the floodplain for the entire centre; even if that means rejigging the recently opened Westpac and upgraded McDonalds, for lack of a better expression, their floorpans are f**cked.

[Patrick_27]

Common sense would suggest making all tenancies fronting Rundle Mall flush with the back of the Terry White Chemist (including the current Telstra Shop but excluding Nike), shift Westpac west to fill the void of the arcade's mall entrance and then bring the bulk of McDonald's forward. Would allow for a relatively rectangular Foodland with a sizeable stock room area. Probably the only concern I have is if a loading back is added to the building, that's going to significantly alter the vibe of Hindmarsh Square and make that area quite unsuitable for the entrance of the above office building...

[how good is he]

Yes Foodland has got it. Main entry will be from Pulteney St where the army disposal shop etc is [all going] & continue along Hindmarsh square to the side/rear where the hawker-style food court is.