Garden City Shopping Centre
Created | Updated Mar 5, 2002
<h2>Riseley Street, Booragoon</h2>
<h2>Perth, Western Australia</h2>
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<b>Fantastic.</b> Well, that's not quite what the local residents think, but it's certainly what Mellville City Council said as they approved the rampant expansion of the Booragoon's very own shopping centre (or shopping <i>mall</i> as the American's call them).
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Garden City is a big, fat, busy Shopping Centre with lots of shops, an eight cinema complex, food hall and a whole lot of construction going on. Placed slap bang in the middle of the suburb Booragoon (which means <i>Salt Water Lake</i> in the now dead local Aboriginal dialect), Garden City is a monument to Australia's capitalist nature.
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Garden City Shopping Centre promises a shopping experience which, curiously enough, has very little to do with Gardens, and a lot to do with a large, bitumen parking lot. As one of the biggest Shopping Centres in Perth, it is certainly a place worthy of the local hitch-hiker.
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The Centre now radiates in all directions, admist five sets of traffic lights and a whole lot of construction work; work aimed at making Garden City very much larger. There isn't much 'Garden' to Garden City: unless a few token trees interspersed between shops counts as Garden-like.
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<b>Oh. . .</b> Just one little warning. . there is an extreme lack of anything to do other than look at stuff you would find anywhere else in Australia.