A fact from 260 Collins appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 September 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the St Collins Lane luxury shopping centre replaced a building considered one of Melbourne's worst?
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Hi all, if anyone has some time can they please review the page for any outstanding COI content and check all language is in a neutral point of view?
If all is acceptable can we please remove the COI banner? In future all edits will be suggested only and there will be no further direct editing - this has been addressed on my talk page. Giantoct (talk) 05:26, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It is recommended that, as a courtesy, you first try asking the editor who assigned the template — in this case Longhair — in order to find out if it can be removed. Since they placed the template, they are in the best position to know whether or not the issues which caused its placement have been corrected. You may contact them by placing a new message on their talk page. In the unlikely event that you do not hear back from them after a reasonable amount of time, please reopen this request by altering the {{request edit}} template's answer parameter to read from |ans=yes to |ans=no. Thank you! Regards, Spintendo 07:19, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've removed the template. The article is not full of promostuff and the editor concerned understands the issues that led to the placement of such. -- Longhair\talk07:28, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Kaipara24, I probably jumped the gun on that. I didn't realise that you removed a heap of references, particularly if they were critical, from the article. Also promotional material was added. I have reversed those edits. You are welcome to improve the article but please read Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. If you have a conflict of interest then you should only make suggestions, here on the talk page. I will keep the new title for now. Commander Keane (talk) 07:18, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Update: I have blocked Kaipara24 for username violation. I didn't make the connection to Kaipara Property Group until after the title move.
You can see Kaipara24's modifications here. There are possibly some good updates from the changes that could be cherry picked and re-added to the article.
Regarding the move, I still think it is ok given Wikipedia:Article titles, but if there is any doubt I am happy to revert back to the title "St. Collins Lane".
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Could we please review the changes previously made and reversed - I'd like to think these were not promotional and factual developments of the centre, updating the current dated information of current ownership, tenancy mix and history of the centre. For example the current centre and tenants subsections are no longer relevant to 260 Collins and therefore needs removing / updating per the changes I had initially processed. Fkay08 (talk) 22:22, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
As I said above a review of the edits is warranted, to quote myself: "There are possibly some good updates from the changes that could be cherry picked and re-added to the article."
Wikpedia articles tend to prefer an historical perspective, not just report the current situation. Just copying the current tenants from the official website is promotional, not encyclopaedic. Removing historical tennants that are referenced is problematic.
I hope someone sees this request and updates the article. Admittedly I could do a full rewrite but I am not motivated to do so. I may take a quick look and make some changes soon.
@Fkay08, you may be the most motivated to improve the article but you need to learn the policies, guidelines and standard practices of Wikipedia first. If you have time to burn I suppose you could work on an update in your personal sandbox, there are no guarantees that someone will merge the changes into the article though. Commander Keane (talk) 23:09, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Fkay08. I meant something else, but it is not important. Wikipedia:Sandbox has instructions on personal sandboxes, you have used your user page.
Nevermind, I can see your proposed changes (I created a diff for easy comparison to be used by me and anyone else following along).
If you are going to suggest small changes like this I think you should not worry about using a sandbox (sorry if I led you up the wrong path there, I assumed you wanted to make huge changes) and just create a new talk page section for each request putting {{Edit COI}} at the top. This is done by Michael Dell's people (example) and seems to work well.
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260 Collins (formerly St. Collins Lane) is a shopping centre completed in 2016, designed by ARM Architecture, which stretches between Collins and Little Collins streets in Melbourne, Australia. The centre runs under a budget hotel occupying the upper nine floors.
It leads directly into the Walk Arcade at the northern end, and faces Centreway Arcade across Collins Street at the southern end, forming part of a chain of arcades and lanes which lead from Flinders Street station to Melbourne Central Shopping Centre through the mid section of all the blocks between Elizabeth and Swanston streets.[1]
Not done for now: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. PK650 (talk) 04:02, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Starting in the late 1870s, this block of Collins Street was home to the city's most fashionable stores, such as milliners, glove-importers, portrait painters, photographers and hairdressers. Businesses such as George's Emporium, Allan's and Glen's music and Mullens' Bookshop and Lending Library drew the cream of Melbourne society. The act of promenading here became a social pastime, known as ‘doing the block’, and the street became known simply as "The Block", a title taken up by the Block Arcade, built 1890–93.[2] Gunstler's Cafe (at about 280 Collins Street) was established in 1879 and was amongst the most fashionable restaurants in the city. In 1890 it was renamed the Vienna Café, which in 1908 was purchased by Greek Australian restaurateur Antony J. Lucas.[3] During World War I the name of the cafe became controversial, and Lucas responded by expanding and completely rebuilding the interior in 1916, and it reopened as the Cafe Australia, the finest tea-room in the city.[4] Designed by US trained architect Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, it was their first completed major work in their adopted country, and featured fountains, sculpture, planting, indirect lighting, and their distinctive intricate geometric detailing. In the late 1930s, the Cafe was demolished and replaced by the Hotel Australia, completed in mid 1939. Designed by Leslie M. Perrott, it was a 12-storey building with 94 rooms, numerous private dining and function rooms, and was the most prestigious hotel in Melbourne in its day.[5] It included an arched-roofed ballroom which was a simplified version of the main Cafe Australia space. The hotel included two small cinemas,[6] a restaurant and bar in the basement, and a through-block shopping arcade on the ground floor which was touted as the largest in Australia, known as the Australia Arcade.[3]
In 1989, the Hotel Australia was demolished to make way for a new development, completed in 1992, the Australia on Collins shopping arcade and four star hotel.[5] The building's architecture, designed by Buchan Laid & Bawden (now the Buchan Group) was variously described as postmodern and imitating art deco style,[7] and the shopping levels were ramped up and down from the street entrances in order to maximise the number of shops, and which resulted in a confusing layout. In later years, Australia on Collins was criticised as "a poor man's temple to the great god of commercialism" and included in a list of Melbourne's worst buildings by The Age newspaper.[8] The shopping centre in this period included approximately 100 shops and a food court with space for 750 diners.[9]
In April 2014, then owners LaSalle Investment Management (LIM) announced that the "dysfunctional" centre would be closed for a redevelopment costing$30 million. Architects Ashton Raggat McDougall were engaged to improve the building's "sight lines" and to prevent customers from feeling "trapped", which resulted in the shopping levels being reduced from five levels to four, without the ramping. LIM stated that the redeveloped centre would be made up of larger stores with a focus on international brands.[9]
The redeveloped St. Collins Lane opened on 16 May 2016 and was immediately placed on the market by its owners, along with the Melbourne Novotel hotel.[10] The centre had an approximately 70% tenancy rate at opening and was hoped by its owners to rival the recently opened Emporium Melbourne on Lonsdale Street.[11]
St. Collins Lane was purchased in November 2016 by JPMorgan Asset Management for a reported price of $247 million.[12] In March 2020, JPMorgan was trying to offload the struggling mall for $150 million [13]
JP Morgan sold St Collins Lane to Credit Suisse Asset Management for about $122 million in December 2020. Following UBS’ global bailout of Credit Suisse in March 2023[14], control of the fund that held the mall transferred to UBS Asset Management, with Kaipara Property Group subsequently installed as the asset and development manager.
UK department store Debenhams opened as an anchor tenant in October 2017[17] but closed in January 2020. In November 2018, Melbourne's first Leica store and gallery opened offering an art gallery, studio and Akademie workshops.[18]
In November 2018, it was announced that British watchmaker Bremont and Paris fashion house Claudie Pierlot had signed on as new tenants. Bremont is set to open in December 2018 while Claudie Pierlot will open for trading in the first half of 2019.[19]
Four new restaurants, Shujinko, Poke and Sushi Boto, Meat the Challenge and Saint Dreux were set to open in the summer of 2018/19.[19]
As of November 2018[update] the centre had 9,000 square metres (97,000 sq ft) of lettable floor space spread across 55 retail stores and 12 restaurants. At this time approximately 34 retailers were open, and 4 restaurants were operating on the top-floor "dining precinct".[16]
The centre currently has 3 flagship tenants on leases (Swatch, Birkenstock and TAG Heuer). The centre was greatly affected by the covid lockdowns and is currently closed on 3 levels (LG, 1 and 2) as it prepares to go into redevelopment.
Entertainment brand Kingpin has taken a 3500-square metre, 10-year lease for the lower ground and mezzanine levels of the mall that were last occupied by British department store Debenhams before its collapse in 2019. On level two – replacing the former food court – Australian coworking and flexible office space provider Waterman Workspaces has leased a 2000-square-metre space for 10 years as its first CBD location[20].
^Hopkins, Philip (3 August 2011). "Retail's confidence builder". The Age. Retrieved 23 August 2017. The overall aim is to improve the connection between Melbourne Central and Flinders Street railway stations through more north-south links such as Degraves Street, Australia on Collins, and the Causeway Arcade.
^ abSpicer, Chrystopher J. "Australia Hotel". www.emelbourne.net.au. School of Historical Studies, Department of History, The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 23 August 2017.
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Not done for now: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. PK650 (talk) 04:02, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
