[COM] Armada Arndale (Redevelopment) | $200m

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I would actually like to see a gutting or redevelopment of the Coles. I would connect the centre with the Cinema. I would like to see investment in a centre that has been neglected for 20 or more years. The part of the centre near Coles, but also near where you used to be able to enter where there is now seating/pavement where The Reject Shop and Best and Less have roller doors or normal doors and that looks really yuck needs something done about it. I would include a sort of food area, kind of what they are doing now.

You obviously haven't been to Arndale for a few years. The part of the centre near Coles is the latest to have been completely refurbished, and looks better than the rest of the centre (which was refurbished a few years previously.

Was the walkway along the length of coles next to the checkouts done? I don't think it was. The coles store it self could do with a refurb as well.

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Stage 5 of this was in for tenders the other day. Unsure what that involves.

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I would actually like to see a gutting or redevelopment of the Coles. I would connect the centre with the Cinema. I would like to see investment in a centre that has been neglected for 20 or more years. The part of the centre near Coles, but also near where you used to be able to enter where there is now seating/pavement where The Reject Shop and Best and Less have roller doors or normal doors and that looks really yuck needs something done about it. I would include a sort of food area, kind of what they are doing now.

You obviously haven't been to Arndale for a few years. The part of the centre near Coles is the latest to have been completely refurbished, and looks better than the rest of the centre (which was refurbished a few years previously.

Was the walkway along the length of coles next to the checkouts done? I don't think it was. The coles store it self could do with a refurb as well.

That's something Coles could do if they wanted to. The Coles store is essentially still a Bi-Lo. No idea if they have plans for it.

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I just came across some info I haven't seen before, apparently Armada will seek to sell the property or list on the ASX. When they created the Arndale trust in 2014 they said in 7 to 9 years. So between 2021 and 2023..unless they've already listed on the stock exchange?

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It's had more names and owners than any other centre I've heard of.

Originally it was owned by the English Arndale shopping centre company, and called Kilkenny Arndale.

Then Westfield Arndale (a bit like Coca-Cola Pepsi that!)

Centro Arndale.

Then Centro became Federation Centres, and subsequently Vicinity Centres, and under both it was called Arndale Central.

Now it's Armada Arndale.

I wonder what it will be called next!!!

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It's had more names and owners than any other centre I've heard of.

Originally it was owned by the English Arndale shopping centre company, and called Kilkenny Arndale.

Then Westfield Arndale (a bit like Coca-Cola Pepsi that!)

Centro Arndale.

Then Centro became Federation Centres, and subsequently Vicinity Centres, and under both it was called Arndale Central.

Now it's Armada Arndale.

I wonder what it will be called next!!!

When Westfield owned it, it was called Westfield Kilkenny.

I always remember that because as kid I could never work out why Westfield dropped the Arndale name because Kilkenny always sounded crappy. Now that I know that Arndale was the name of a rival company who used to own the centre it all makes sense now.

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It's had more names and owners than any other centre I've heard of.

Originally it was owned by the English Arndale shopping centre company, and called Kilkenny Arndale.

Then Westfield Arndale (a bit like Coca-Cola Pepsi that!)

Centro Arndale.

Then Centro became Federation Centres, and subsequently Vicinity Centres, and under both it was called Arndale Central.

Now it's Armada Arndale.

I wonder what it will be called next!!!

When Westfield owned it, it was called Westfield Kilkenny.

I always remember that because as kid I could never work out why Westfield dropped the Arndale name because Kilkenny always sounded crappy. Now that I know that Arndale was the name of a rival company who used to own the centre it all makes sense now.

Well we do have generally boring, crappy suburb names here in SA.

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It was definitely known as Westfield Arndale in the 1990s.

https://youtu.be/AqIARy6O62c

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This is a mall directory from towards the end of the time Arndale was owned by Westfield.

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That's interesting, I didn't realise that Westfield changed the name back to Arndale.

During the mid 80s it was definitely called Westfield Kilkenny. The reason why I remember that is because my parents used to always still call it Arndale and can remember being a smart ass and always correcting my Mum that it wasn't Arndale it was Kilkenny.

Maybe Westfield hoped the Kilkenny re-brand would stick, but eventually just gave up and went back to calling it Arndale?

One of my earliest memories was going there as a kid not long after the underground carpark and Big W had been added (I'm guessing around 84 or 85).

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That's interesting, I didn't realise that Westfield changed the name back to Arndale.

Maybe Westfield hoped the Kilkenny re-brand would stick, but eventually just gave up and went back to calling it Arndale

I can tell you from my experience with Westfield that's exactly what happened!

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That's interesting, I didn't realise that Westfield changed the name back to Arndale.

During the mid 80s it was definitely called Westfield Kilkenny. The reason why I remember that is because my parents used to always still call it Arndale and can remember being a smart ass and always correcting my Mum that it wasn't Arndale it was Kilkenny.

Maybe Westfield hoped the Kilkenny re-brand would stick, but eventually just gave up and went back to calling it Arndale?

One of my earliest memories was going there as a kid not long after the underground carpark and Big W had been added (I'm guessing around 84 or 85).

Arndale was a company so Westfield wouldn't be able to use it, that would be plagiarism. After a while maybe Westfield bought the name Arndale.

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The Arndale company built shopping centres all over the UK, and 4 in Australia.

There were two in SA. Kilkenny, and Oaklands Park. The one in Oaklands Park was also sold to Westfield and it still is owned by Westfield now.

Interestingly it's not called Westfield Arndale.

I suppose they could have called it Westfield Arndale Marion, but I think they made the right decision just going with Westfield Marion!

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I now just happen to live very close to one of the other Australian Arndale centres, at Springwood, Queensland.

That one is still called Arndale (just "Arndale", no prefix or suffix), and is now owned by a company called Retail First.

I'm glad it's not called Retail First Arndale!

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I'm positive it was Westfield Kilkenny. Arndale is just what people called it. Although interestingly I did see an article from when Westfield sold their share in it referring to it as Westfield Arndale.