On 15th March, Chatswood Chase transitioned into its next evolution to reposition as the leading luxury retail, dining and lifestyle destination to serve the north shore community for the next four decades and beyond. The vision is to transform into a modern and iconic destination with luxury retailing, experiential dining, a new fresh food market hall.
Amongst the introduction of new luxury brands, the retail precinct will undergo a major reconfiguration of the ground level through to level two, with extensive design and ambience upgrades including new skylight-atria features throughout and the transformation of the Victoria Ave main entrance. Early works have been in progress and we’re now ready to commence the full scale construction from 15 March 2024 with an expected completion date in late 2025.
Chatswood Chase has been committed to bringing the best Australian and international fashion, homewares, lifestyle and experiences to Sydney’s north shore for over 40 years.
The first phase of this exciting development is well underway to deliver the centre’s lower ground level - a new, premium fresh food precinct complemented by new restaurants and cafes within a new dining precinct. The new fresh food and dining offering will bring cutting-edge design and a wide variety of fresh and specialty foods and include a mix of new and existing retailers.
Customers can expect a destination that has been reimagined to match their aspirations and exceed expectations, with an elevated selection of specialty fresh foods, a new dining precinct and market hall and refreshed retail offer.
Chatswood Chase new dining precinct promises an elevated experience, featuring premium dining operators and grab and go restaurants.
Once completed, customers will welcome back some of their favourite stores and experience some exciting new ones.
Store openings to be staggered until late 2024.
To make way for the major redevelopment, we are required to make some temporary changes to the Victoria Avenue entrance. Early Jan a hoarding was installed around the Victoria Avenue entrance, however customer access including DDA access will be maintained to both Ground floor and Lower Ground. Retailers are gradually vacating the centre ahead of full-scale mobilisation of the site from 15 March.
David Jones is one of Australia's and the world's oldest department stores, with a proud history of delivering Australia's premium shopping destination housing the world's most sought after brands. It first opened its doors in 1838 and has since become an iconic part of the Australian retail landscape offering customers a range of products and services across beauty, fashion, food, technology and homewares.
Over the next 2 years, David Jones Chatswood is excited to undergo a rejuvenation, but we remain open and at your service.
We've consolidated all of your favourite brands onto our Ground Floor level and there is no change to our store access via Ground Floor or car parking. Please note, Toys and AV are currently unavailable instore but can be shopped online. Find out more about available brands and services at David Jones here.
There are changed parking conditions in the carpark to B1 and B2 carpark levels.
These changes are being made to widen the central ramp, which will help improve the flow of traffic for our customers. Hoardings have been set up, and new access routes to B2 have been marked with signage to guide you accordingly. View the map here to plan your visit.
For further information on parking and accessibility, please click here.
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT DETAILS
The vision is to transform Chatswood Chase into a modern and iconic destination with luxury retailing, experiential dining, a new fresh food market hall. Building on Vicinity’s position as Australia’s leader in luxury retailing, plans for the new luxury retail precinct features a mix of the best Australian and international designers carefully curated to match the aspirations of our customers and community.
To deliver the exciting transformation of Chatswood Chase, major redevelopment and reconfiguration works need to be undertaken. We understand that this will cause disruption and we are taking all steps we can to minimise this.
We are committed to working with and supporting our retailers to assist with driving visitation to Chatswood Chase during redevelopment.
Construction is well underway with staggered store openings commencing from November through to later in 2024. Construction for the main retail transformation project is set to commence on 15 March 2023 and is expected to be completed at the end of 2025.
Chatswood Chase will remain open and operating throughout the planning and construction periods. We will ensure disruption is kept to a minimum.
The new fresh food and dining offer on the centre's lower ground level will remain open and trading throughout the redevelopment of the retail centre. Different retailers are subject to different trading hours. New retailers will open in stages from November 2023 through to the end of 2024. One level of David Jones will also remain open.
We are working with all impacted businesses on a case-by-case basis and will work closely with them to ensure a smooth transition.
For some retailers, this will be the case. We work closely with impacted retailers to provide as much time as possible for them to plan their future opportunities.
We are excited about our plans to transform Chatswood Chase into the leading retail and lifestyle destination for Sydney’s north shore.
Our plans will deliver:
Major redevelopment of lower ground floor
Major centre redevelopment
In November 2023, Vicinity announced that is has acquired the remaining 49% interest of Chatswood Chase, from GIC. Vicinity’s Board.
This purchase enables Vicinity to proceed with its vision to transform Chatswood Chase into a modern and iconic destination with luxury retailing, experiential dining, a new fresh food market hall as well as ~3,500sqm of multi-use space elevated above the retail centre at level 3.
Early works have commenced to prepare for full scale construction in March 2024 with works expected to be completed by the end of 2025.
Work is well underway to deliver the lower ground floor - a new, premium fresh food precinct and market hall, complemented by new restaurants and cafes within a new dining precinct. Store openings will be staggered, and we have introduced a number of new retailers since November 2023.
Early works are already underway to prepare for the retail redevelopment with full mobilisation on site from 15 March 2024.
To stay up to date on open and operating stores visit at www.chatswoodchase.com.au
You can visit our Centre website, which hosts all the information about what’s changing as part of the upgrades to Chatswood Chase. We update this regularly as new information becomes available. You are also welcome to reach out to our Concierge team with any further enquiries you may have.