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| Description: Fitzroy Street: Grafton Centre |
| Date built: 1981-1984 |
| Architect: Fitzroy Robinson |
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| Date photograph taken: 27 Jul 2000 | (Alternative map: Google map) |
This is the usual entrance to the Grafton Centre shopping centre for pedestrians coming from the city centre, and its small size belies the large complex hiding behind.
These kinds of shopping centres are largely the same all over the world, and although popular, lack character.
The restaurant at the right, Footlights, closed down in 2009. This was the location of the Eden Baptist Chapel (1874), which was demolished, with the congregation relocating to the other end of Fitzroy Street, when the Grafton Centre was built.
In 2017, as part of a more general makeover, the glass façade was replaced by a larger, less ornate, one.
Most of the site was closed down in 2025 to be re-developed into life science laboratory space, with the western end remaining as retail.
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