Wollongong Central - Centre Information

Centre Information

Wollongong Central is made up of two shopping centre buildings, originally individually run but in the late 1990s bought by the GPT Group and joined by a pedestrian bridge: Crown Gateway and Crown Tower. At this point the two centres became Wollongong Central. Also during the early 2000s the Gateway food court was replaced by a medical centre and later by Allens. The centre currently features part of a David Jones department store, a 3-floored Myer, and approximately 140 stores in the centre itself. In addition, there are also around 300 other retail outlets in the adjacent Crown Street Mall, which Wollongong Central is part of.

The Crown Gateway building has three floors. Mini-major Rebel Sport occupies the underground level, which opens to Burelli Street to the south at ground level and Crown Street to the north via escalators. The next storey is the ground floor which contains specialty stores, fashion outlets, restaurants and cafes. The next level, level two, contains much the same. Myer occupies all three stories.

The Crown Tower building has two floors, and unlike Gateway is at street level to Crown Street Mall. The first floor features mini-major electronics store JB Hi-Fi, and a small campus of the David Jones anchor department store, and the second floor features another mini-major, Best & Less clothing store (formerly a Franklins supermarket).

The main campus of the David Jones store is in a separate building connected to Crown Tower via a pedestrian bridge. The main campus is not part of Wollongong Central.

At Christmas, Easter and other festivities the mall is decorated, and flagpoles show banners in the mall below. The food courts are both in the Crown Tower building, with only a few cafes in Crown Gateway remaining.