Abandoned Oz - Sydney’s Abandoned Harbourside Shopping Centre - The Final Day
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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Sydney’s Harbourside Shopping Centre
The Final Day
Friday 9th December 2022, Today is the final day for Sydney’s Harbourside Shopping Centre.
I decided to visit to see what it looks like.
Empty and eerie are two words to explain it.
Little to no shops open, people moving the last of their stock, a few people having their last look and a lone security guard.
This video is a final walkthrough.
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Thanku I Honestly Was Only Thinking Of Darling Harbour Recently Sad ,To See Die it Honestly was Awesome 90s
I swear if you handed a big enough brown bag to the right people you could get permission to concrete over Sydney Harbour and build a nuclear waste dump next to the Opera house.
We did have planning regulations - they were overruled for the new casino (a casino ffs), the Sofitel at Darling Harbour, the new towers on top of each metro railway station (where they knocked down the last historic Victorian block in Sydney CBD, and now are flattening Frankie’s), etc
Try adding a car port to your house and see what the council says, but build a 44 storey tower that casts a shadow over the city and you are fine.
Tome to hold a Royal Commission into corruption in building approvals and force the demolition of the ones that didn’t comply.
You are absolutely right. I am from Brisbane and the Gold Coast and the same thing is happening here it's so sad to see such beautiful homes and buildings demolished only to build an ugly eye sore in its place. Growing up in Brisbane I remember so many stunning structures pushed out for progress. Breaks my heart. I do understand that progress must take place but I think now a lot of it is about the almighty dollar.
It was so glorious during its heyday in my childhood. Could spend all day there. There was a gemstone place, a ‘make as you order’ animated graphic design t-shirt, - the 90s was the best. So sad it’s abandoned! Didn’t realised everything closed 😢.
There’s not all that much in Darling Harbour now since Harbourside closed.
Sure the view is great but the shopping and dining scene has been cut
@@AbandonedOZ so depressing.....big mistake imo turning vibrant places with nightlife into residentials....epic fail. seriously - where will visitors go? and whose bright idea was casino's? so lowcoin. tragic.
It looks more like a planned closing. The word "abandoned" the way I know it when it comes to malls, is a mall starts to be neglected over time as business declines. More stores close until the whole place closes down. What's left becomes an eyesore as the building just sits there falling apart and unused.
Yes, It's going to be demolished and redeveloped.
Wow I had no idea this had closed! Pancakes gone!! Crinitis, Zaaffran gone! It was such a part of my uni days, lunch & dinner dates with my husband in the early days and in more recent times, as well as school holiday outings with the kids (who are all grown up now). If I had known it was closing I may made one last visit. I feel really sad and a bit old since I remember when it was opened. What is going in there? Will some of the retail, restaurant and bars return? I suppose I should stay tuned to find out… P.S. thanks for posting this.
Pancake and Crinitis have both relocated to new locations somewhat nearby.
this is so sad and devasting for the store holders, restaurants, etc could they not have waited till after Christmas to close them down?
I remember going there in 1988 as a child so many fond memories
Why does it have to close? Looks perfectly serviceable…another example of the earth’s resources being undervalued and squandered…
Wow, didn’t know Rashays managed to lease a spot at Harbourside! Managed to make their way that far east!
nice, thanks for documenting this.
I will definitely miss Cohibar for smoking cigars. I've been going there since 2010. Also my first job after high school was at Harbourside.
Great video, mate.
What's the go with this one? What caused the closure??
From Melbourne here, so a bit out of the loop! ;)
The area will be redeveloped.
So sad to see, I couldn’t believe it’s going to be destroyed😮
I always went there when visiting Sydney on business.
First it was the monorail, now this, I don’t know what else has been destroyed, but it seems the developers are turning the CBD into a concrete jungle, so much for Darling Harbour to be for the people. 👿🤬
Oh I Loved Walking This Building Wow And Sad!!! Rember Spending Money Here ,Wow ,U Walked Where I walked90s, What A Shame
Damn it, if I had known, I would have gone
thanks for heading back for the last day, the last connection to the bright and colourful 90s darling harbour....
I remember the huge Virgin megastore that was there! Even when it was built in 1988 was very exciting.
@@user-kc1tf7zm3b I remember a Brashs on Pitt Street but was the Virgin megastore in Pitt Street Mall where later HMV music was? I can't remember??
@@childrensorg856 HMV was the underground and anchor retailer for the original Pitt Street Mid City Centre. Virgin Megastore was nearby and across the Pitt Street Mall in another underground location. The retailer was rebranded as Blockbuster in the early 2000s.
HMV Pitt Street was much larger than either Sydney CBD Virgin Megastore branches.
As for Brash’s, yes, this was on Pitt Street as well, but, was south of the mall. Officeworks occupies the site today. There was a McDonald’s nearby on Pitt and Park Streets. There was a contestant who won a complete Sony home theatre system, with the condition that he ‘live’ in the Brash’s display window during the entire 1996 Atlanta Olympics event. The contestant had a sofa in his living space. He won his prize.
@@childrensorg856 Come to think of it, Virgin Megastore Harbourside may have been bigger than its Pitt Street sister branch. Apologies.
Virgin Pitt Street Mall was always overshadowed by HMV which was bloody huge. At the time, HMV Pitt Street was the largest music store in the Southern Hemisphere.
If memory serves, rock group Poison performed onsite when HMV Pitt Street opened in 1990. 🎸 🥁
@@user-kc1tf7zm3b when you mentioned "blockbuster music" I know exactly where it was now 👍 It would've been rebranded as blockbuster in the mid 90s because I remember cast of Melrose place made an appearance there, got photos at home with blockbuster signs everywhere within the store, would've been 1996 or so.
I remember the old railway yards on this site before Harbourside was built. I worked for the architectural firm who designed this building and I did some of the drawings. I remember the three directors did a quick tour of other Harbourside festival market places around the world. It was a very exciting time.
Darling Harbour was discussed in the recent exhibition at Sydney Museum. The overall 1980s Darling Harbour precinct took inspiration from a 1980s redevelopment in San Diego, California, if memory serves.
Darling Harbour was a serious contender to host the 1988 World Expo, but, the organisers selected Brisbane as the Queensland Government were deemed to be more business friendly.
Thanks for posting this. I attended many work conferences at the then exhibition centre in the nineties , and visited and lunched at Harbourside. Moving to Sydney in the late nineties, darling harbour was a great place to visit. Sega world, the imax, the monorail for kids, home nightclub, the entertainment centre, cafes and restaurants for adults. All close to the city. The area has been ruined by stupid decisions….knocking down an award winning exhibition centre to build another on that does exactly the same thing. Deciding that people would be better off catching a train to Olympic park to see international acts rather than a night out in the city precinct. Removing the IMAX and Sega world for more apartments. And the decision makers wonder why the city is an embarrassment to international visitors. Sydney cbd is mostly just apartments now, the result of greed and a complete lack of imagination.
I think all that the state government want any visitors to do is plonk to just their money into the pokies in the casinos, and go home once they run out of money; thats about it. Anything that gets in the way of that isn't worth their time. Its so sad.
I can't recall the exact details but the exhibition centre had a MASSIVE list of issues/defects. To the point that it was cheaper and better, in the long run, to demolish it and build a whole new centre rather than undertake expensive repairs that be ongoing 'bandaids'.
@@markd.9538 Still these imagination-less corporatist zombiefied governmental apparatchiks think they are geniuses.
No, I respectfully disagree with Ms Lynk’s comments. Even by the turn of the millennium, Darling Harbour was becoming somewhat eerie as the Sega World venue failed. For those with long memories, the eastern side of Cockle Bay which now contains Home Bar was just vacant space throughout the 1990s.
Simply put, 1988 came and went, so the structures unveiled during the Bicentennial year just could not last forever. My sense is that especially when IMAX reopens, the co-located W Sydney hotel opens in 2023 and the redeveloped Harbourside finally opens in 2027, Darling Harbour will truly enter a new golden age. Just as it did nearly 40 years earlier.
I have no doubt that the future generation of Sydneysiders will make Darling Harbour close to their hearts as the much older generation did in the 1990s and 2000s. Progress!
Could not agree more!! I loved this place in the 90s and early 2000's. Now I am lucky to visit once a year. Utterly soulless place with nothing of interest. Sydney is going down the gurgler and fast, all this government cares about is money money money. Spend spend spend your way to a happy life.. it's a misery
A sad day, I remember this place being built.
Darling Harbour was supposed to be "for the people", and it was under the old Foreshore Authority, but then the state government smelled money.
The Sega World side of the area was taken back off the lessors, and two massive office blocks were built for a bank ☹️
Well done NSW.
Then the convention centre went, and a massive hotel was built that didn't meet the planning regulations..... What a surprise.
Now Harbourside is going - to be replaced by an apartment tower that also doesn't meet planning regulations.
So much "for the people".
I wonder who's pockets were filled this time
Lol the hotel. They bulldozed the world's biggest IMAX screen and replaced it with an empty shell of a hotel that all these years later is still opening "Real Soon Now™". Great work NSW.
@@davidshepherd265
That’s the other one - the W. The builders went bust. Giant white elephant that cuts the harbour off from Tumberlong park.
But so long as their is money in it…….
Agree, it looks ridiculous there now. Such a mess. The W Hotel what an eyesore 😂
Never vote for the LNP. They are the most corrupt mob ever.
Sounds just like the British Torie Government. They must be best friends, who ever they are!
So sad to hear this! I've spent such great times here at the kingpin and food court with mates, it's an iconic piece of Sydney's history that hopefully won't be forgotten any time soon. If they really are replacing it with apartments... god help NSW.
3 weeks ago when I was in Sydney with my daughter I had no idea it was closing. It was my daughter's first time at Darling Harbour and we ate at the food court before going on to the maritime museum. So sad seeing that I have younger children who've yet to go to Sydney.
Me too.
I'm totally shocked and saddened by this. Had no idea . I use to fix refrigeration and air-conditioning on a few shops and restaurants 25 to 30 years ago
Everything was better in the '90s; the food, entertainment, tv, movies, music -- and it was cheaper too.
Wow, I had no idea it was closing, I must be living under a rock, have not been in city for a very long time. Your channel just showed up on RUclips. Thankyou - I felt a bit sad seeing this as I remember the excitement of it being developed and then working there as a casual when it just opened up. I was 21 and studying at teacher's college and working there helped pay for a lot of things including my studies. I remember really enjoying being there and going to the food courts on my breaks. I met people there that changed my life. Amazing...and forward we go into a rapidly changing world. I'm guessing it closed as a consequence of pandemic?
Redevelopment, I think by Mirvac. . The last I heard, shops, offices and a 42 story residential tower (24,000 square metres of office space, 7,000 square metres of retail and 350 apartments). It is waiting for final approval.
@@daveg2104 oh I see gosh, thanks for replying.
@@daveg2104 thank you..As we just need another redevelopment with new units in the city.I heard they thinking to redevelp city in more residential area ...
@@dankadesign7462 They are increasing density around transport hubs. In Parramatta, you have quite a few new office buildings, as well as apartment blocks. And there will be a lot of new development around the new airport. As for existing residential suburbs, I would think the town centre will be where densification is most likely to occur.
@@daveg2104 yes but i still think that City doesnt have enough infrastructure to cope with more development.
While the building dates from 1988, the current fitout was from 2005 - and it was certainly an improvement on the 1988 interior. Odd that something that looks so relatively new is due for the chop.
Harbourside was dated and underutilised, hence its 2023 to 2027 redevelopment.
The State has to build new apartments for the people, remember you will have nothing,and you will be happy. Australia is gone under this Government, makes no different what it’s label is. We are being controlled by WEF. Give us maybe 2023/4 if that long, already drugs, crime and poverty, are going up, and the Socialists/Greens Party are doing everything in their power to make life here, in the once lucky country intolerable. Just protest, don’t obey Govt. Instructions. The Police are mostly Labour, but there hands are tired by the Govt. and Courts, they are corrupt, my thoughts are for the paramedics, that are continually picking the filth around us. We must fight this cancer. To hell with political speech, diversity, gender equality, racism, hate, and cancel couture. Bring back respect, humour and work for a living instead of bludging. FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
I seem to remember 70% of this place borded up 2017-2019 as each section was upgraded and fully reopened.
I lived on Bathurst Street for four years and Sydney for nine between 2004 and 2013, I visited here regularly. The curry house in the food court was particularly good. Very sad, thank you so much for documenting this.
Thanks for this video, it's historical for something the next generation can watch. From school excursions in the late 80s (was there at the opening) to hanging out at the virgin megastore and working up in the Accor hotels, loads of memories but we move with the times I guess.
It always seemed a poorer cousin to the city shopping malls, but it was a great place for lunch looking over Darling Harbour. I can't understand why it's closing in early December, just as the summer tourist season is getting under way.
Makes no sense to close it at this time of year. Tried going there last Saturday for lunch, not even knowing it was closing down
The property investors want their financial returns as quickly as possible. There is no point in the developers waiting another 3 months for summer 2022/23 to pass.
I didn't think so. It was the hottest place to in the city at one time. Thats why Bill Clinton went shopping there when he came out to Australia.
@@dianafarmer5445 The quality, depth and scope of all the various retailers at Pitt Street Mall _always_ left Harbourside for dead. There was just no competing with Sydney Centrepoint and Mid City Centre.
Back in 1990, the Harbourside anchor tenant was Virgin Megastore. As many Sydneysiders have pointed out, Harbourside was really a tourist trap.
@@mohamadsowaid6275 Closing down before Christmas certainly made sense to the property owners. In the end, what else matters?
When you have your own business, you are free to cease trading whenever you deem to be right.🎄
Hardly "abandoned", the lessee's were ordered to vacate by Dec 9th 2022 and work begins on a $2 billion project of a proposed 42 stories of of residential apartments. The local residents in the are understandably objecting to it's size. I agree that it is sad that the centre is being demolished and while I have not seen the plans I bet there will be a large retail section on the ground floor and maybe even a couple of stories up.
Wow I didn't know Harbourside was gone. I haven't been to Darling harbour since the late 90s/early 00s. I remember 15 year old me on Australia Day 1988, with mum and dad, look at the tall ships and exploring the area. In the early 90s I went to my first (and last) nightclub there, and me being me missed an opportunity for a good night...not reading the clues. I loved looking at the shops, the ones we didn't have in Liverpool Westfield, and it was exciting for me, yes even the obvious tourist trap places. I even caught the ferry from Circular Quay to Darling Harbour once.
Wow that is so weird.
My wife used to work at the Candle Palace shop there years ago (like mid 2000s). So odd to see it empty and abandoned.
Very fortunate to have gone into Harbourside on several occasions with my family before it closed down for redevelopment. Although I am sad to see it go after 34 years in serving as an icon for Darling Harbour, I guess it's time to embrace the new age and see where Darling Harbour goes from there. Thank you Phil for making this video and providing an opportunity for all of us to revisit what was once a memorable piece of Sydney. :)
Yes. Not long and it will all be gone because of progress. MEMORIES will soon be nonexsistant. How i miss yesteryear
@@evewright1102 Indeed Eve but unfortunately, like anything, change is inevitable and there's nothing we can do about it. What we do have are the memories and experiences that will forever be in our hearts and minds.
@@rogerduckling339 yes so very true. Something no one can take from us, we will take our memories to the grave with us. Would like to wish you and your family A Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Stay safe and in good health.
Embrace the new age?
What's to embrace but more ugly, cardboard box apartment buildings on every second corner, and more dumbing down courtesy of technology???
@@scottbrandts610 I know the government's plan to develop new residential buildings and apartments isn't a popular decision amongst the general public. What I'm saying is that we've just have to face it, whether we like it or not. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about it now that the government's following through their ambitions.
The thing is it's not even that old, It was the place to be in the late 80's early 90's.
I worked at the Craig Bar, Brewery & Grill back in the early 90’s. Great memories and everyone in the shopping centre knew each other and we were all friends.
i went there last week and it was so sad, today would be even sadder!
I parked nearby a few months ago to attend the boat show. I must say that walking through the mall was an eerie experience. Kind of like a place forgotten by time.
Another childhood memory gone 😞
These mansions of materialistic madness were always going to be doomed despite their temporary, apparent success.
Used to take the monorail from the city centre station to harbourside as a kid
i had an explore yesterday afternoon until closing, met some cool people ! thanks for the free water + softies buddy’s :-)
i had been there a few times when i was in Sydney as i remeber going to the Newso there was with my carer at the time was a full of people as i ate at the Mcdonalds there and had a drink there too and had fish n chips there when i was down there with my carer seeing the sight of the place as i knew the shops was there when i last visited there as thiswas a few years ago as i felt sad thiswas gonna be gone was a really nice place to eat at too as i remeber going there at the time when the boat show was on at Darling harbour for the boat show there thiswas really sad to see the place i rembmer was gonna be gone was a nice place as i knew the good shops was really near the Kent street units i did stay at there the hotel id stayed in was in kent street units was where me and my carer stayed at in at the time when the Harbourside shops was iun use thiswas my happy times i gotten a good outings there when we are eating there and i had a shandy there at the bars in there was a buzzy place when i last went there thiswas really my good memories of this nice place really good place for me thiswas gotten me good memories as i knew thiswas the the good place for me
9 MINUTES in considering its shutting down it is amazing how shiny new and clean it looks .........to me it looks like you reviewing a soon to be opened mall ....in the UK there would already be smashed windows busted in doors and very grubby
it seems a shame it is empty ,i am sure i shopped there in 2003 and 2005 when we stayed in Sydney ,will checkout more of your films
Goes to show how civilised us descendants of convicts have become aye
Oh wow I remember when this place was new... Oh man.. I'm old, I'm officially old 😔
I remember being at the opening of Darling harbour and the shopping centre back in 1988 when I went on a school excursion. I used to play at the timezone and have lunch up in the food court around the early 90's. It's a pity but everything changes.
As a Tourist we always visit here for food mainly as we always stay in Darling Harbour when we come to Sydney. It's a shame.
I remember visting here in early 1988, probably January. It had just opened and was'nt very busy.
I did not realise that this shopping centre has closed down .When it first opened it was such a nice shopping centre to eat and shop in but I think it all went downhill when the monorail discontinued operations and was dismantled . I actually have a video on my RUclips channel taking the last ride on the monorail. Those were the good old days. What happened to Harbourside?
Thanks for posting this! I’ve only been to Sydney a couple of times over the years but I have fond memories smashing down a Zinger Box on those seats beside KFC during a recent work trip. Had no idea it was closing down! Sad to see it go.
I don't understand the insistence on redeveloping the fun and personality out of the once nice, whimsical, low-rise Darling Harbour area. Being built in connection to the bicentenary, I'm sure it was intended to last longer than 35 years. Still, hurrah for sterile glass boxes, I suppose?
All about money…..
Forget about the lack of public transport, complicated access and facilities, let’s put an apartment block there…..
An utter disgrace that they would knock down a perfectly good shopping centre such as this. I hate capitalism.
Really miss how darling harbour used to look in the 90s and 2000s now it’s becoming too urban
I worked there from 1979 to '85 when it was a railway yard and visited many times since it was turned into public space. I moved to Newcastle five years ago and haven't been to DH since. What happened to the place? Why is it closing? Is it just the shopping centre or the whole area?
I didn't even know it was closing. I had an apartment in the Sydney CBD looking across to Darling Harbour. I used to walk across to Star Casino in the evenings for food or booze. I was in college with 'Buddy' (Buddy Chebib) who owns the convenience store that you mentioned. We studied at TAFE in Ultimo together in the early to mid 1990s. After that, I lost touch with him. At the time he was just working in a convenience store in Kings Cross, but it appears that he now owns his own series of convenience stores across Sydney. Why have they closed Harbourside down? Are they going to rebuild and redevelop?
Obviously there's a big difference in what developers can spend and what people can spend
I remember the excitement of darling harbour opening in 1988 in time for the bicentennial. I can also remember during the 2000 Olympics Restaurant we’re struggling to get customers as locals left town and tourists were too busy going to Olympic venues to sit down for a fancy meal. Haven’t been in the area since 2019 for a fitness expo. Probably overdue for a remake.
The Centre looked just as bad as Brisbanes Myer Centre did
What a shame it's closing! I visited there when I was staying at the Oaks suites around the corner last year when I was seeing Hamilton when it first opened. However, it was fairly dead, even then in March 2021. And oh boy 15:27 really takes me back- that was where I was taken to lunch by Mike Munro & Paul Jennings (kid's author) when I visited Sydney to fill a segment for 'A Current Affair' back in 1993 lol!
I work near by. It's been a ghost town for many many months
My dad use to work there as a cleaner when he was young and he knows the place very well
I work for the Rashays that bought out the contents of the Harbourside site and it was surreal packing up the shop 3 storage sheds worth of equipment and seating
damn bro i remember going shopping in there with my family
Wow, it was pretty ironic (as I recently visited Sydney days before the closure of this mall), at the start of December 2022. Probably the last time I took a photo of Darling Harbour with this mall standing and operational.
I’m sad to see this place go 😢, I had so many memories here and all of them were good memories. ❤.
miss the darling harbor of the early 90s.
The lost money for merchants from fitouts Ouch!
Thanks for a great video. This is your best video. Shows more detail.
Be cool to see video of what happens with it and while it's being demolished and other things being built. Thanks again
Why is the entire 0lace closing down and being abandoned, does any9ne have a answer for it.....or are they thanking bout demolosh8ng the place and building something else there
They are demolishing it and building a bigger shopping centre and apartments in its place.
So sad to see it closing down, I am from the UK and visited Sydney in 2017 & 2019 and visited the Harbourside Shopping Centre both times and it was nice and busy. Will be back in the next couple of years so it will be interesting seeing the changes. Love Sydney
Covid and lack of transport to the site (monorail) helped kill it .
FYI: the monorail demolition started this all. If it were never demolished Harbourside would still exist
More of our throw away society. What a waste.
6:16 ELFIN CUPID!!!????
Anybody knows what they’ll build in its replacement? Or is that just going to stay empty?
How can such a massive piece of real estate in one of the most iconic areas of Sydney can be left like that?
From what i’ve read they are building a new shopping centre and apartment tower in its place.
@@AbandonedOZ why apartments? It’s a commercial area
This is just a very sad moment for this amazing shopping centre.
The last time I’ve been to the mall was with my school mates on an excursion in 2019😢😢
Im returning to oz in march,and was so looking forward to going there
You know the harbour side is not getting abandoned right. They are closing the place so they can build a new shopping centre and apartments on the site
That's the problem. Why put bloody apartments everywhere?
@@theresebizabishaka7605 this video will explain what they are doing and why.
ruclips.net/video/PlA75RsXiNg/видео.html
Yeah and how long will that take?
Apartments yes but it will be a small cafe walk, not a shopping centre.
@@theresebizabishaka7605 lack of imagination
I remember going there in probably the early 90s when on holiday. I think it had sculptures of birds in flight in one of those arched areas. That's about the only thing that sticks out in my mind.
I also had no idea it was closing been awhile since I been to it. I remember as a kid the bottom floor had a timezone area what a decent size area always a fun time. I do remember over the last few years it slowly and slowly seemed dead inside the shopping centre such a great location hopfully they do something good with this space. Still remember Sega world as well. Such a shame that the city has changed so much over the years
Always a strange place for a tourist trap. Built down to the standards of a second rate suburban shopping mall. A waste of a great location, something we Australians are expert at. I suppose the redevelopment will be no better as this is on state land and there is nothing the NSW government likes better the extracting every penny of value from the land it owns.
Harbourside was completed in 1988. Standards and expectations were different back then. Harbourside was very much a product of its time.
@@user-kc1tf7zm3b when I went there in 88 I was sadly disappointed. I has done my youthful world traveling a few years before the place opened and it definitely knew the entire darling harbor development was not something that would impress overseas visitors. As a day out for the locals, if you don’t want to celebrate Sydney it was fine, but no it was not “ of its time “
@@francesconicoletti2547 Your experiences are all well and good.
But, what really mattered was how the entire Darling Harbour precinct was received by Sydneysiders in 1988, 1990s and into the 2000s. I would be confident in saying that most Sydneysiders really did enjoy the Darling Harbour experience. Especially by the turn of the millennium in 2000 when IMAX and the eastern shore of Cockle Bay was developed with Home Bar and the other restaurants and bars. Personally, I always had a blast visiting Darling Harbour in the 1990s and 2000s.
It is sad that almost everything has changed since 2000. But, nothing is forever, as precincts have to naturally stay relevant to keep attracting existing and new patrons. If memory serves, all that has remained as it existed in 2000 is the eastern shore of Cockle Bay and the Chinese Gardens.
I was there in Feb 1988 when it opened , when I was visiting from Canada, still have he the pin badge they where handing out at the time.
I was at that Hard Rock Cafe back in 2015, last time I went to that mall.
To make way for 50 storey apartment for greed?!
Seems that way.
With a new Harbourside Shopping Centre underneath (or beside the new apartments).
Dolphin Waterfall Was Beautiful And There Was Always Something Arty Happening , Oh Beautiful Sydney,I Love Queensland From Thesedays
I live here! Great shots steady hand! $2 Billion dollar Shopping centre will replace this including 50 storey Tower and people friendly gardens...hardly abandoned! Full demolition immediate and Full replacement MIRVAC for fact checkers. The whole of Darling Harbour has been demolished and replaced New entertainment centre new exhibition centre new food quarter AMAZING Place.
It's such a waste to tear down a perfectly good building.
I'm so sick of the stench of greed that exists here. Nobody cares about the people anymore. it's always about lining the pockets of the rich, who by the way, don't need anymore money. It's just a game to them. I hope they all rot in hell.
Pretty sure Daryl Braithwaite did a concert which was filmed for MTV Australia 1989-1990 time
Lived in Sydney all my life, worked in the city, but never knew that this existed.
I went there too on its last days - the stench of the whole place OMG, smells like rat, rat urine, and death
I think it was all the ventilation and aircon being turned off that caused the musty and off stench.
I know what you mean 100%
That’s sad to hear & watch. I remember in 1991-92 partying at darling harbour. When they used to have the theme rides along the foreshore. We would inevitably end up down that way. I was there one New Year’s Eve when Sydney was declared the location for the 2000 Olympics Games. “The winner is Sydney” Now I feel old😂
I guess nothing stays the same
Mate, it's hardly abandoned. Vendors are still trading (albeit last day), next day it won't be a shopping center, but a development site.
That place was super expensive, aimed at tourists. Another victim of the lock-downs, thanks China. Irony is, twas mostly Chinese tourists in that area. But Hey, Darling Harbor is mostly Chinese owned, anyway. Karma.
I remember visiting in ‘91. It was a wonderful development. Sad to see it lasted a mere 34 years.
Spent many a Saturday in that place in the late 2000's, early 2010's with my now ex girlfriend.
Now it'll be another developers treat. Afterall, who wants a few decades old building doing, and still doing what it was designed to do?
Oh yeh.. Money... Just like the powerhouse museum....
This is not abandoned, they are renovating it. Perhaps you should try renaming your video and not looking for views with a misleading title.
Really ,This place Holds So Many Beautiful Memories When Built Are U Serious,The Art in That Building Was Amazing Sad To See really is The End of My Era ,
I was just there on the 20th November... Very bare and sad looking. Reminds me of a more dilapidated version of Southbank in Melbourne to an extent.
New "42-storey, high-end residential tower" where foreigners can invest their retirement funds. Guaranteed financial growth, as long as they remain permanently unoccupied by owners or renters.
This is sad to see 😥
To knock buildings down that have remaining lifespan have a beautiful design is a stain on society. Why is the generation of the 90’s worth destroying?
I hope the design is better than the icc. That's awful. They could have left the old entertainment centre there. As usual they're going to plonk yet another high rise in the spot. Which will most likely be bought by foreigners. Pushing out Aussie buyers.
What are they going to put some mega ugly hotel or apartments up,so only the rich get to enjoy the area???
A new shopping centre and an apartment high-rise.
@@AbandonedOZ thank you for that information, another to block out the sun.
Has anyone thought abought making the upper floors units for people to live in (especially for the homeless until they can re-establish themselves financially & emotionally). It would also assist with the lack of housing that is around.
In Sydney? With THIS government?
That'll be so great for the local atmosphere, it'll be a new highs.
No money in that