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in 2007 found that in all three DFO-owned centres, most shops carried at least some full-price, current-season stock, available at normal shopping centres. By 2008 five legal challenges to DFO developments have been made by competing retail developers and the
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450 million they are owed. The South Wharf centre was under an A$ 500 million debt, with work on completing the centre stopped after workers placed bans over non-payment. Parent company
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426:. The shopping centre opened on 3 October 2018 with 113 retail outlets and 1,500 parking bays. Vicinity has a 50% shareholding with the remainder owned by Perth Airport Development Group Investments. It has 111 tenants on 23,729 square metres (255,420 sq ft) of GLA. It opened in 2018.
410:. In 1997 the centre was purchased by the Austexx Group as the group's first DFO shopping centre. The centre had approximately 45 stores on 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft). Since opening, the centre has expanded to 24,715 square metres (266,030 sq ft).
394:. It was constructed in 2007, and was sold by Austexx Group to Chin Yin in 2016 to be managed by Geon Property. It is one of two DFO centres that Vicinity Centres has no ownership in, the other being Carins. It underwent a major refurbishment from 2019 through 2021.
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483:. All five people aboard the flight were killed. As the shopping centre had not opened yet, only staff were at the centre, all of whom were accounted for. The incident was the worst aviation accident in
322:, It opened in 2005. As of December 2021, it has 144 tenants on 26,020 square metres (280,100 sq ft) of gross lettable area (GLA). It was acquired by Vicinity Centres in May 2016.
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535:"Ownership of 1.5 Billion DFO Retail Chain to Change"
350:. It opened in October 2005. On 21 February 2017, an
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461:Essendon Centre plane crash
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659:"Direct factory outrage"
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1222:Broadmeadows Central
516:Battle of the titans
402:DFO Moorabbin is in
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96:Number of locations
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1254:DFO Uni Hill
1239:DFO Essendon
1181:The Galeries
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255:KordaMentha
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983:29 October
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