A selected summary and extracts of media coverage in recent years around the topic of local shopping strips in Melbourne, Australia – in no particular order:
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- 28 July 2021 — Some of Melbourne’s popular shopping strips that were struggling before the pandemic have got worse, others are bouncing back…
- 23 Feb 2003 — These people use their local shopping strips because they like buying their meat and having their shoes repaired by someone who knows their …
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- 28 Apr 2021 — Melbourne’s shopping strips testify to the wreckage of last year’s protracted lockdown, the end of relief schemes and long-term trends that …
- 24 Apr 2021 — Gertrude Street’s shop vacancy rate soared from 9 per cent in January 2020, before the pandemic struck, to 18 per cent 12 months later, …
- 2 Dec 2019 — Traders may be shooting themselves in the foot by advocating for more parking, as a new survey shows more people are hoofing it to the shops…
- 31 Oct 2019 — Some suburban shopping strips are doing it tough, but it is not all doom and gloom. These are the Melbourne shopping streets that are …
- 3 Sept 2020 — The UK government introduced a grants program to convert vacant shops into spaces for community services such as social enterprises, local art…
ECONOMIC PROFILES
City of Stonnington
- Gross Regional Product is estimated at $10.13 billion, which represents 2.03 per cent of the state’s GSP (Gross State Product)
- 19,055 local businesses and 66,530 local jobs
- largest industries are health care and social assistance
- Economic Development Strategy 2017-21
Whitehorse City Council
- Home to 172,316 people, supports 77,921 jobs
- Annual economic output of $22.103 billion
- Construction industry sector
- makes the greatest contribution to economic output in the region
- at $3.1B accounts for 13.81 per cent of total output
- 17,330 jobs – represents 22.2 per cent of total employment,
- Health Care & Social Assistance sector- region’s largest employer
- Whitehorse Investment & Economic Development Strategy 2024-2028
City of Maroondah
- 115,043 residents
- 9,000 businesses that employ 36,000 people
- Gross Regional Product is estimated at $6.69 billion
- Local jobs 51,261
- Local businesses 10,229
- Employed Residents 63,687
- Health Care and Social Assistance | Largest industry (by employment)
- Draft Business Development Strategy 2019
City of Boroondara
- 4 priorities identified to support continued economic development and tourism in Boroondara in the years ahead:
- Thriving and engaging activity centres and shopping precincts.
- A productive and supported business community.
- An environmentally sustainable, circular and ‘smart’ local economy.
- A Desirable Destination for Visitors
- Economic Development and Tourism Plan
Employment and Gross Regional Product | financial year ending June 2022
- reported a Gross Regional Product of $13.28 billion
- 84,684 jobs
- 93,353 employed residents
- Professional, Scientific and Technical Services (14,974 local jobs)
- Healthcare and Social Assistance (14,875)
- Other – Education and Training (12,348) and Retail Trade (9,939)
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