Highpoint Shopping Centre is a major shopping centre located in Maribyrnong, Victoria, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The centre has over 400 stores including a four-level Myer department store, Target, Big W, Harris Scarfe, Safeway supermarket, Best and Less, Rebel Sport, Toys R Us, JB Hi-Fi and a 17 screen Hoyts cinema and an IMAX theatre. It is the largest shopping centre serving Melbourne's western and north western suburbs, an area with a population of at least half a million people.
Highpoint is Victoria's fifth-largest shopping centre and the 10th-largest in Australia, with an annual turnover of $778 million and over 15 million shoppers visiting each year.
Highpoint is currently undergoing a $300 million two-stage redevelopment which will include a David Jones department store, which will be completed by early 2013.
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