Broadway Shopping Centre

It has the goods, literally. The only place you will find more brand new goods in Sydney is Westfield mall in Pitt street or the one at Bondi Junction, or if you have a credit card and an internet connection, on eBay, Amazon or
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The best part of this mall is that it has an Aldi, which means you can do an entire shopping cart worth of groceries in under $ 50, and for the two things you didn’t’ find in Aldi, Coles will happily charge you your other $ 50.
You can drive, you can park, shop, eat, watch movies, go to the gym, buy clothes and even play video games. The only thing it’s missing is a hotel to sleep in and you could stay there forever. Actually, maybe there is a hotel there because there always seems to be a heaps load of people just walking around. They are not zombies, for they are clearly responding to all the shop window fronts, though Australian prices would cause even the zombies from the walking dead to react in shock and awe.
The mall even has a gift card shop and a post office, so you can stay in touch with your loved ones if you get lost in there.
If you value your sanity, don’t attempt to buy clothes in this here mall. While it is a real mall, all the clothing shops interposed b/​w juice counters and apple stores and bankrupt dick smiths and what not just give of a dead, sad vibe. Like this where all the uncool people come to shop because they can no longer be pushed to go to the cbd to buy some spiffy clothes. Sure, the cbd has the exact same outlets, but at least you have a chance of getting hit by some sunlight or rain out there.
To quantify the rating in a numerically robust method:
Pros:
+2 stars for Aldi
+2 star for the Hoyts Cinema
+1 star for the AC in the summer
+1 star for the fact you can’t conceivably starve here, long as you have money or friends with money who frequent the mall
+5 stars that u can park in this mall for free and walk to Malacca straits just a block away for lunch/​dinner — it’s awesomely awesome. So awesome that it gives Mamak a run for its money. Buy a drink from liquor land and head over to Malacca. This will be your best day at the mall ever. Do it.
Cons:
–2 stars for the overpriced popcorn at Hoyts and the shit movies
–1 stars for the AC destroying the very world
–3 stars for the soul crushingly boring food court whose very highlight is a sad sad Nandos competing with a Subway for title of best food in the mall.
–1 star for the completely interchangeable kMart and Target stores. For the life of me I can’t figure out what the difference is or why I would go into one over the other. WHAT THE F IS THE DIFF B/​W THEM? Why can’t they merge and save the world much angst from this existential question? I once had a dustbin to buy but it’s just too much to choose b/​w these two stores so I went all the way to Ikea and bought one there instead.
–2 stars for having a shit ass store called Home something which ALWAYS has a 60−80% going out of business sale.
–1 star for the way overpriced book store. It’s Amazon’s best advertisement in Australia. One look at the prices convinced me to buy a Kindle and save 80% on most books.

As shopping centres this one is OK; it has a swathe of the usual big vendors, K-​mart, Apple and Coles, cinemas are smallish but well outfitted. But what lost me recently is that they have apparently disappeared their food hall without any warning, including one of my favourite lunch haunts sushi train restaurant Tomodachi. There’s no mention of why or what alternative they’re implementing and it’s got to rank with the worst handlings of a change to existing key services I’ve seen.
If it means anything to the centre admin; this was the key reason I visited the centre. If you look for me and my team now, we’ll be up on Glebe Pt Road or in Chinatown.

OK, so I hate the parking lot here. It’s awful.
And I hate shopping malls, categorically.
Buuuttt… this one has a Coles and Target and a Kmart.
And on the top floor, they have a Forever New and Review and few other little shops I like. I hate clothes shopping, so when I do shop, I only want to hit up a few that I like and be done with it. Broadway has enough of what I like for me.
Plus, I can go to Coles and do a minigrocery shop, BAZINGA!!! Two birds, one stone. You could almost call a mall like this… tolerable.

This mall has transformed numerous times in my lifetime from when it was just Grace Brothers to the first mall which wasn’t very lively at all. It was almost a poor man’s or poor students mall with small retailers and quite frankly, not very much activity. The cinema at the top and the free parking were probably the only reason most people came here.
Then as the years passed, more people started living nearby and lo and behold, Broadway Shopping Centre has moved more upmarket. It has it’s own Apple store, a decent JB Hifi, Harvey Norman and a number of cafes. However the standout for me was the excellent Harris Farm in the basement and the recently renovated/​expanded Coles. This Coles is one of the new flagship stores with the inhouse butcher/​fish monger/​bakery/​pizza bar/​salad bar/​cheese station and basically everything you would need in a supermarket.
A Baker’s Delight and the high quality Peters Meats rounds off an upmarket grocery shopping experience.
This mall now attracts people of higher social standing and coincidentally the Bi Lo has recently shut down which was a legacy of it’s poor student mall days.

I have to say, colour me impressed. For a place that’s restrained by space, its grown taller and branched out. Cinemas and shopping, an Apple centre and all the standard stores (apart from Myer or DJs) make it a good place to come for an all round shop.
The fact that its so close to the universities makes it a very happy vibe which is nice.
The free parking for 3 hours is also pretty awesome (and why its so busy!), and if you are here for the cinemas, you can extend that by an hour.
Only improvements I can suggest are the food court which is ordinary.

Ahhhhhhhhhh Broadway. The lights are shining on you, shopping centre of repute!
Does anyone remember the rabbit-​warren Grace Brothers that used to be here before they converted it? I used to love it! But now my love has transferred to the shopping centre that was birthed from the ruins of that old building, rising like a phoenix from the ashes.
This is a thriving centre, a rapture of retail religiousness, missioned by a centre management that obviously care, because there are always events going on, both entertainment orientated ones, and shopping ones…
Beloved of the New-​new Newtown set of creative counter-​cultures and hipsters, this is the shopping centre I visit as often as I can. Hell I’ve even worked here many years ago, and loved it.
Ample parking leads to a well-​endowed mall of cinema, high, medium and low fashion. Coles, Kmart, Bi-​Lo, Tar-​jei (Tar-​jeux? Will that ever take off Ha!) and a fully stocked larder in the food hall. Apple even came here, so that has to be good right? JB-​Hi Fi managed to open up here too, as have… well all the places you would want to shop at. Seriously they’re all here.
Ich bin ein Broadwayer!

A reasonable shopping centre spread out over four levels, just on the edge of the Sydney CBD. Perhaps mostly aimed at the inner west locals and the university students in Newtown, it is also pretty accessible via public transport (with buses from the inner west from City Road, and western/​city buses along Parramatta Road). The ‘main’ names are here, such as Apple, Nike, French Connection, Coles, Target, KMart and Harvey Norman. The food court isn’t anything special however, and there isn’t a whole lot on offer here.

Is crazy at Christmas!
I came in here because there was a whole host of new stores and a new Dick Smith’s to get a gadget for someone for christmas.
The new level means more shops and this isn’t a bad thing, although I do miss the huge huge bookstore on level 4.

Has your usual stores that you would expect in a shopping centre.
Parking can be a bit of a nightmare, all depends on when you arrive, and does take a while to get out with the congested exit areas.

Visited Sydney for the weekend, and while walking from the Inn in the morning exploring the city with my cousin and a friend, we came across this this shopping centre. It’s a good place to shop especially if you don’t want to go deep in the city, where its very crowded and crazy. I got excited when I saw the Apple store, spent most of my time there. Well mostly to charge my phone, it was dying and I didn’t have my charger with me. It’s pretty much spread out, and the food court is lovely. There is a lot of variety, so what ever your mouth may be watering for you might just find it.

Broadway has just about everything without being overwhelming and exhausting. No Myers or DJs but a Target, 24hr Kmart, Freedom and Harvey Norman (I think). With lots of smaller familiar stores, a Hoyts and a really nice food court with lots of healthy options and no Maccas (yay!). The Sushi Train is a big favourite of mine, as is Bar Piazza with their super friendly staff who make the effort to learn you name if you go there regularly enough!
Being a huge fan of the dwindling and soon-​to-​be-​extinct bookstore, Dymocks here is really good. Really helpful staff, I can always find what I want and I usually end up browsing here for waaay too long, spending too much and justifying all my buys as ‘teaching resources’.
I can always find a car parking spot, 3 hours free parking, (4 if you validate using your movie ticket at hoyts). Harris Farm all the way down the bottom (underneath Coles) is also worth a look, with the most amazing international foods and excellent produce.

I always thought it was quite random to have a shopping centre all the way up here, but I changed my mind when I realised that attempting to have a picnic at Victoria Park without any actual picnic food was going to be a problem. Luckily, Broadway shopping centre is conveniently close by — across the road actually. I had everything I needed from the Coles supermarket within minutes.
Broadway has a decent selection of retail shopping (they have a pretty decent sized Rebel Sport downstairs), a food court with all the usual options (salads and sandwiches, burgers and kebabs, smoothies and coffee) and most importantly, working ATMs when you need them most!

I think I’ve spoilt — no I’ve definitely been spoilt, after spending so much time in places like Westfield (Bondi Junction/​City) shopping centres like Broadway seems so… meh…
The thing is its a nice shopping centre — has a lot of variety from grocery stores to food courts to clothing stores and other bits and pieces… I think maybe its the Mall Rats that turns me off… the kids skipping school or the ones with the freaky rat tails that are so unappealing… maybe it’s the lighting, the bleak exteriors of just the feeling that nothings changed in here since the mid– nineties…
Practical yes — appealing… «meh»…

For a relatively small complex (I live near a Westfield, no comparison), Broadway Shopping Centre has a great range of higher-​end as well as discount clothes stores, jewellery, a Reject Shop, K-​Mart, Cineplex… basically everything you would need if you were caught in a Zombie Apocalypse and wanted somewhere to repopulate the earth in style… actually, to that end, King’s Court «Massage» «Parlour» is right outside on Broadway but let’s not go there. Or I’ll reserve judgement til someone reviews it.
Free from shady dealings to my knowledge, Broadway is open til a reasonable hour and the Food Court has a good range of cheap food and is clean, as are the bathrooms. Also a lot of shops here seem to be have permanent sales on, or maybe I’m just lucky– whichever it is I think of Boradway Shopping Centre as an unofficial outlet centre.

Broadway is the closest shopping centre to the CBD with free parking. Enough said really! There are three hours free parking, and you can get that extended if you go to the movies.
You can pretty much do the whole centre in 3 hours, and since it opened the top level a couple of years ago the fashion shopping options have increased. So you can actually have a fair bit of retail therapy.
Within the complex there is a health centre, with GP’s and specialists, as well as all the other services like hair, nails, post office, chemist…
The food court is popular with uni students, and is generally pretty busy at all times. There is a sushi train/​japanese restaurant within the food court if you are looking for something not served on a tray.
Harvey Norman has recently opened new premises, which is one of the few larger items stores, along with Freedom, Kmart and Target. The Target is quite a good version of the chain, with nice presentation and good organisation and a large range of clothing. I am not sure why, maybe it has something to do with it being new? Or maybe there is a great store manager keeping everything in order.
Entertainment includes the movies (hoyts) and a timezone type gaming place.

Free parking in the city! Broadway is about five to ten minutes away from Central and that probably disqualifies it from being considered as part of the CBD, but it’s still Free to park for the first 3 hours!
Conveniently located below Glebe and close to Central Station, Broadway Shopping Centre has all the popular departmental stores like K-​Mart, Target, Coles Supermarket, and even a Harvey Norman inside.
I like watching movies at the Hoyts Multiplex located close to the food court inside Broadway. There is a Ben & Jerry’s ice-​cream counter inside along with the usual popcorn and coke candy bar.
I could easily spend a whole day at Broadway, browsing books at Dymocks, fashion shopping at Jacqui E, Marcs, Witchery and Nine West, breaking for a Boost juice and lunching at the Phatboys Thai before heading to Hoyts for a chick flick and finishing up by collecting my weekly groceries from Coles.

The carparks at Broadway Shopping Centre are always full. So the centre must always be full, right? Ehh. .. not quite. If my suspicions are correct, people are taking advantage of the three hour free parking and visiting nearby Glebe, Sydney Uni, or even strolling up to Chinatown. Well, I never!
As for the centre proper, it recently added a fourth floor devoted to fashion and seems to be in the process of re-​marketing itself as a viable fashion destination. Due to a social code which curbs the inclination and denies me the ability to wear a dress, I cannot tell the ladies how it fares in this capacity. For men, you have the option of Country Road, French Connection, or Marcs, none of which are sterling choices, but they do compare very favourably to fourth runner-​up, YD.
The remainder of the centre is a fairly functional modern shopping centre, but it seems to be missing something that I can’t quite put my finger on. I never really enjoy being in here: the shop selection is a bit of a mish-​mash (which, to some degree, is the point of a shopping centre) and it definitely isn’t my first stop for clothing. Not bad if you’re in the area, but not destination worthy.

I am not one for indoor shopping centers. In fact, I hate them. Stale air, loud music, the perfect echoing conditions for screaming children… blerrrgghh. Broadway Shopping Center is no different, but I will tolerate its frustrating ways because it has just about everything that one might need. From Coles to Kmart to Target, it’s got your bases covered. If you are moving into a new house, Kmart has decent quality home wares for really, really good prices. You just can’t be too particular. Most of your stock standards are here: Cotton On, Just Jeans, Sports Girl, and the like. The second and third levels are where you can find your higher end brand name stores like French Connection, Nine West and Guess. There are a decent amount of food stalls in the food court on the 3^rd floor and the Hoyt’s Cinema can’t go without mention. This isn’t the place I would recommend making a special trip to just for fun, but if you happen to live nearby or you need to kill several errands with one stone, Broadway Shopping Center might be a good place to try.

I’m truly a sucker for anything convenient. As long as I can find what I want quickly, at any time, and at a low price, I’m sold. Broadway Shopping Centre is the epicenter for convenience I’ve yet to see in the City. It has everything, from clothing stores to pharmacies, supermarkets to discount department stores. The Coles Supermarket is one of the largest around, and it’s open 24 hours! So is K-​Mart! I’ve stumbled into Coles a couple of times to pick up a midnight snack or ingredients to whip up a cake. There’s also a Target (where I just bought new bed sheets for a bargain!).
Clothing stores include famous brands like ESPRIT and French Connection, and a slew of other chains. You can find every cell phone provider within the mall. There are home décor stores, an Oxfam shop, and a Harvey Norman. At the top, there is a giant food court. The escalators are designed to grip the shopping carts so you can bounce from store to store with one trolley.
Oh, yeah. On the topic of convenience, Broadway offers free three hour parking in their car park. Amazing. Buy everything you need for the week and just bring it to your car which is gratuitously stationed right outside the door! It’s so refreshing to find a place like this, especially in Glebe.