Friday 27th
November 2015
Hobart is all GO at the moment. Every
time I go to town I am gobsmacked to see a new building where surely there wasn’t
one yesterday. Or a big hole in the ground
where something…what…ummm…was prominent on the landscape, also just yesterday.
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| Rushing for the door |
But for the past nine years there has been a big gap in the CBD. On September 22nd 2007, the Myer
shop burnt down. This was a major blow to
the city – Myer was our only big department store, and it took up a large proportion
of the block. (Hobart CBD really only
has one block…) Poor Hobart city centre
has been a poor wounded creature ever since.
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| Happy! |
So those of us who love our city were thrilled to bits to see Myer
rising, like a very slow phoenix, out of the ashes.
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| Leona display - joy! |
Katy and I spent a very happy hour, beaming and gazing in delight at the
beautiful new shop. It is still quite –
ahem – small but it is very glamorous, with beautiful lighting which makes everything
look SO desirable. And yes we were good
for the economy! Katy bought a very nice
new silicone pikelet flipper…and I fondled a lot of clothes and admired a lot of
glassware and bought…nothing at all!
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