Chadstone – The Fashion Capital, Australia’s largest shopping centre located in the southeast Melbourne suburb of Malvern East, has undergone a major A$685m ($462.86m) redevelopment.
Vicinity Centres and Gandel Group jointly own the shopping centre. The redevelopment involves refreshing and repurposing the existing space and utilising land within the existing footprint.
The project added a nine-storey commercial office building at One Middle Road, expanded car parks A and C, and introduced two new retail precincts: the Market Pavilion and the Social Quarter.
It generated more than 650 full-time-equivalent jobs during construction, in addition to 2,000 direct and indirect full-time jobs.
The redevelopment plan was announced in December 2019 and approved by the City of Stonnington in July 2020.
Construction of the expansion project began in February 2021.
In March 2023, the Social Quarter precinct opened at the shopping centre, followed by the Market Pavilion in March 2025. The entire expansion project was completed in July 2025.
Location
The project is located in Malvern East, Victoria, 17km south-east of the Melbourne CBD. It is a 45-minute drive from Melbourne’s international and domestic airport at Tullamarine.
Chadstone redevelopment project details
The dining terrace of the shopping complex features seven new restaurants, elevating Chadstone’s food and beverage experience to a premium level.
The centre includes an A$130m ($87.8m) nine-storey 20,000m² commercial office building and landmark entrance on the One Middle Road, which was completed in July 2025.
The upgrades added a new 16,800m² area, including 3,800m² for retail, 1,400m² for restaurants, 5,300m² for health and wellbeing services, 2,900m² for childcare services, 1,000m² for education services and 2,400m² for co-working areas.
The dining terrace and leisure precinct have been expanded with A$70m ($47m) to add 4,000m² of new space.
The A$485m ($306m) fresh food and dining precinct spans 26,500m² and features more than 50 outlets, including specialist grocers, local producers, restaurants, and home and lifestyle retailers.
Alongside Market Pavilion, an all-day casual dining strip, Dining Laneway, has been opened. It features 11 venues offering both dine-in and takeaway across a range of cuisines.
Dining and entertainment spaces at Chadstone
Spread across more than 10,350m² and located below the LEGOLAND Discovery Centre and HOYTS 13-screen cinema complex, the Social Quarter includes 17 entertainment and dining experiences.
The precinct contains five new dining retailers: Piccolina Gelateria, Cityfields, White + Wong’s, Sardine Bar and UA Brewing. An onsite brewery operated by UA Brewing produces sustainable craft beer.
The existing dining options include Betty’s Burgers, TGI Fridays, Marae Izakaya, New Shanghai, Mama’s Buoi, Cinque Terre and Fonda.
Four new entertainment brands – Archie Brothers, Hijinx Hotel, Holey Moley and Strike Bowling – joined the existing entertainment facilities.
Hijinx Hotel comprises immersive game rooms and a bar, while Holey Moley is a mini golf destination with an onsite bar called The Caddyshack.
Strike Bowling, an eight-lane bowling alley, includes robot servers to welcome guests and collect shoes. Archie Brothers Cirque Electriq provides arcade games and includes a 4D XD theatre.
One Middle Road office space details
The One Middle Road provides secure, A-grade workspace along with a new level of covered parking on top of car park C, adjacent to the Coles entry. It is integrated with the Market Pavilion.
The Chadstone Centre accommodates 3,900 office workers, with the number expected to increase to more than 6,000 upon the completion of One Middle Road.
Amenities at the new office tower include a 600m² outdoor sky garden for al fresco working or corporate events, a business lounge, 21 showers, 200 lockers, 200 bike spaces and 560 dedicated car parking spaces.
A porte-cochere serves as a landmark entrance for the tower.
Sustainability at One Middle Road and the Market Pavilion
One Middle Road and the Market Pavilion are designed to achieve a 5 star rating under the Green Star rating system.
The sustainable design includes a new 740kW solar photovoltaic (PV) system and a naturally ventilated market hall.
The food precinct includes an improved building thermal envelope. Natural ventilation louvres in the roof of the Market Pavilion provide energy savings of 500,000 kW a year.
Other measures to reduce the impact on the environment include the use of on-site solar power, a dedicated waste management plan and net-zero operational emissions.
Located above the food precinct and wellness facilities, the One Middle Road office has been developed as an all-electric building.
The Social Quarter is installed with a 199kW solar PV system, which improves its energy performance by more than 30%.
The precinct is expected to achieve a 5-star Green Star rating. A louvred roof comprising 468 individually glazed pieces provides climate control for the Social Quarter.
Car park upgrade details
The Coles and David Jones car parks have been expanded to add more than 1,400 new car spaces across two parking precincts.
Chadstone’s car park A is upgraded with A$97m ($75.4m) to add more than 850 new parking spaces to improve visitor convenience and accessibility to customers around the fashion capital. Expansion of car parks C and D created an additional 582 car spaces.
The first stage of the parking project includes adding two new levels above the existing David Jones car park, increasing the total number of free parking spaces for the customers to more than 11,000. The upgraded car park features more than 400 solar-shaded parking bays on the rooftop to generate 1.6MW of electricity.
Contractors involved
Transport consultancy GTA Consultants provided various transport service areas to support the redevelopment project.
RLB, a quantity surveying and construction cost consulting firm, offered full quantity surveying and advisory services for the project.
Australia-based construction company John Holland was engaged to deliver the Market Pavilion and One Middle Road.
Hassell, an architecture firm, Robert Bird Group, a civil and construction engineering consultancy, ADP Consulting, an engineering and sustainability consultancy, and Inhabit Group, a design-led consultancy, were appointed as consultants for the One Middle Road project. Custom Clad provided powder-coated aluminium cladding.
Architecture firms Buchan, Jackson Clements Burrows (JCB), Decibel and Lat Studios were contracted to serve as architects for the Social Quarter.
Stowe Australia was awarded the electrical and communications contract for the three-part Chadstone Shopping Centre redevelopment, which includes The Market Pavilion precinct. PSV Consulting Engineers was also involved in the project.