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Yeppoon Central Opens – A New Yeppoon Shopping Centre

Yeppoon Central #1

Yeppoon Central Sign

Yeppoon finally got what has been needed for years. Yesterday on March 3rd, a new shopping centre by the name of Yeppoon Central finally opened on the roundabout corner of Park Street, Tanby Road and Old Rockhampton Road. There are 3 major shops and restaurants, Big W, Woolworths, and McDonalds, as well as 30 other smaller shops.

A list of the smaller shops is below.

  • SK Hotels Bottle Shop
  • Yeppoon Central Meats
  • Supercuts
  • Sanity
  • Mad House
  • Nextra Yeppoon Central
  • Amcal Max
  • Mystique Jewellers
  • Yeppoon Travel World
  • Jay Jay’s
  • Xodus
  • Forever Young
  • Rockmans
  • Crave
  • Sunny
  • Payless Shoes
  • Strandbags
  • EB Games
  • Leading Edge Telecom
  • Suncorp
  • Flight Centre
  • Lenards
  • Dick Smith Electronics
  • Donut King
  • Michel’s Patisserie
  • The Coffee Club
  • Origin Kebabs

The shopping centre was built on a 7.4 acre block of land. The total area of the shopping centre is 14,000 square metres while the area of Big W is 6,100 square metres and Woolworths is 4,200 square metres. There are a total of 800 parking spots, with 700 under the shopping centre and 100 outside. Both Dick Smith Electronics and McDonalds are located at the main entrance, which will be good. There are numerous entrances, including a travelator (which is like an escalator only with no steps) and a lift. The whole centre cost $60,000,000 to build and more than 500,000 man hours.

Below are some of the photos I took on the opening day.

McDonalds Yeppoon Central
McDonalds Yeppoon, a recent addition to the Yeppoon Central shopping centre. McDonalds opened about a week ago on the 12th October 2008.

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The entrance to Woolworths.

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Some of the isles in Woolworths. The colour scheme that they have used combine silver, for the walls (look right down at the far right end), and green and brown for signs.

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This is looking from the balcony down to the road. The showground is just across the road. The vacant area will soon contain a McDonalds, which is going to be built soon.

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Looking over the balcony. Just inside the doors are the food shops.

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The entrance to Big W. If you have got an old Big W in your area chances are you haven’t seen (or even heard about) the new logo. Now you can.

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Looking at Dick Smith Electronics. The entrance is just around the right corner. Dick Smith Electronics is situated right underneath the balcony.

March 4, 2008 – 2:51 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Information for Tourists, Monumental Moments, Yeppoon | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

Baby Rats Sold

Yesterday we drove into Rocky to pick up some furniture for my sister and to sell the rest of the baby rats (we had 10 to sell).

First of all we went to the big pet store in the Redhill shopping centre, where my sisters asked if they wanted any rats. It turned out they wanted all of the female rats (there were 7 of them) which they were willing to pay $2 each for. The rats had just been installed in their new cages when the girl working there had to ring her boss for some reason. The boss then said that he only wanted to pay $1.50 per rat, which meant that instead of receiving $14 dollars they would only receive $10.50. My sisters sold them anyway.

We then went to the Aussie Tender Centre to pick up the piece of furniture.

After picking the furniture up we drove down to another pet place that we knew of called Webby’s Pet and Grain Barn. Because we weren’t sure if they sold rats or not, one of my sisters ran in to ask. They did sell rats, so we all walked in. I went around taking photos of all the beautiful birds that they sell. Anyway, the owner of the pet barn was very nice and gave the girls the full $3 that they wanted for each rat. He also said that most of the pet-shops will rip you off when buying baby rats. For example, the first pet-shop that we went to only payed $1.50 for the rats, then sold them for $5.00.

All in all, it was a good trip into Rocky. Below is a photo of the Webby’s pet barn sign.

Webby's pet and grain barn

[tags]rockhampton, webbys, pet, food, grain, barn, rats, redhill, aussie, tender, centre[/tags]

August 7, 2007 – 7:14 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)