History
Built in Mid 1997, this shopping centre contained 178 businesses, including two supermarkets (Coles and Safeway), a discount department-store (Target), and two Terry White Chemist's in both sections of the centre as well as a Hoyts Cinema. Watergardens also has a major homemaker precinct across the road from the main centre, containing Bunnings Warehouse and Harvey Norman.
It also contains a wide variety of fast food shops including McDonald's, Subway, KFC, Muffin Break, Red Rooster, Ali Baba, Di Caprio's, Donut King, Gloria Jean's, Hungry Jack's, La Porchetta, Nando's and Wendy's.
A major development costing $138 million saw the centre nearly double in size. The expansion opened in April 2007, and included a Big W discount department store, a second Safeway supermarket, Rebel Sport, Dick Smith Electronics, and approximately 100 specialty shops, altogether totalling over 220 businesses. It also includes a 600-seat food court.
It supports local initiatives such as Neighbourhood Watch, and is "committed to making every member of the local community feel right at home in their very own shopping precinct."
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