Parabanks Shopping Centre is a shopping centre

Shopping mall

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 located in the major shopping area of Salisbury

Salisbury, South Australia

Salisbury is a northern suburb in Adelaide, South Australia. It is the seat of the City of Salisbury, and in the South Australian Legislative Assembly electoral district of Ramsay and the Australian House of Representatives divisions of Wakefield and Port Adelaide...

, a suburb in the northern part of Metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia

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Stores

The shopping centre has four major tenants which are:

• Woolworths
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• Coles
  Coles Supermarkets
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   Supermarket (formally BI-LO
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• Big W
  Big W
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• Harris Scarfe
  Harris Scarfe
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Other retailers in the shopping centre include:

• Homeart
• The Reject Shop
  The Reject Shop
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• Australia Post
  Australia Post
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• Sportspower
• Betts
• Suzanne Grae
• Miller's
• Noni B
• Lowes
  Lowes Menswear
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• EB Games
  EB Games Australia
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• Gametraders
  Gametraders
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• Zamels
• Allphones
  Allphones
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• Flight Centre
  Flight Centre
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• Baker's Delight
• Lenard's
  Lenard's
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• Springfield Butchers
• Specsavers
  Specsavers
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• OPSM
  OPSM
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• Michel's Patisserie
  Michel's Patisserie
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• Wendy's
• Optus
  Optus
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All tenants are located within the same building with the exception of Coles who occupies an independent structure within the centre's eastern car park.

Other neighbouring retail businesses include an 8 cinema Hoyts

Hoyts

The Hoyts Group is an Australian company consisting of Hoyts Exhibition, Hoyts Distribution and Val Morgan.Hoyts Exhibition manages 450 screens across 40 Australian and 10 New Zealand cinema complexes; making it Australia's second largest cinema chain. Val Morgan, the cinema advertising arm of the...

 complex, several restaurants and many other specialty shops.

History

In April 2008, property group Stockland

Stockland

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 sold the shopping centre to the Angaet Group who also own Sefton Plaza and Aberfoyle Hub Shopping Centre.

Redevelopment Plans

Plans to upgrade the centre at a cost of A$

Australian dollar

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100M were announced in February 2009 consisting of an additional supermarket, food court, up to 60 specialty shops plus the installation of escalators linking to the existing undercover car park.

However the upgrade may not go ahead should a nearby shopping centre plan for Salisbury East and Salisbury Heights residents be approved.