Sydney Walking Tour | Top Ryde City Shopping Centre

Sydney Walking Tour | Top Ryde City Shopping Centre
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Top Ryde City (previously known as Top Ryde Shopping Centre) is a large indoor/outdoor shopping centre owned by The Blackstone Group. It is located in the suburb of Ryde in Northern Sydney.
Top Ryde has bus connections to the Sydney CBD, North Shore and Northern Suburbs, as well as local surrounding suburbs operated by Busways. Majority of its bus services are located in Devlin Road in front of the shopping centre's main entrance and Blaxland Road. There is no railway station at Ryde, the nearest stations are located at Meadowbank and West Ryde and a metro station at Macquarie Park.
On 5 May 2015, Myer has closed its Top Ryde store due to poor sales with many customers increasingly shopping at other Myer stores such as Parramatta, Chatswood, Macquarie Centre and Sydney. The redevelopment began in June 2015 which saw many stores closed or relocated during the redevelopment including Freedom Furniture and Supa IGA which have both closed. This development consists of:
A full line Kmart on the space previously occupied by Supa IGA (and Franklins prior to 2013) which opened on 16 June 2016
A full line Coles supermarket including a liquor store on the first floor of the space vacated by Myer which opened on 9 November 2016
A new fresh food precinct and new stores opened on 9 November 2016
Harris Scarfe opened their first full line Sydney store on 22 July 2017 on the ground floor of the former Myer. However, in January 2020 this store has permanently closed amongst the 20 other stores after Harris Scarfe has entered voluntary administration in December 2019. This store has since been replaced by Supreme Furniture which opened on 1 August 2020.
TK Maxx has also opened its store on the same date as Harris Scarfe.
The original Top Ryde Shopping Centre opened, on the current 3.5 hectare site on 14 November 1957 by then premier of New South Wales John Joseph Cahill. It was the first post-war major open-air shopping centre built in New South Wales and the second post war and open-air mall-type complex built in Australia after Brisbane's Chermside Drive-In Shopping Centre (now Westfield Chermside) .
The centre was the dream of Peter Benjamin from the retailing family who opened A.J. Benjamin's in the suburb of Chatswood. Benjamin had travelled to the US in 1953 where he visited about 20 shopping centres in the new American style and met up with friend Peter Yeoman who was completing postgraduate studies in Detroit on the subject of American shopping centres. Together they devised a design for such a shopping centre in Sydney. Yeoman came up with the idea of the apricot brick and the windowless building with vertical divisions, while Benjamin sketched the layout for retailing.
In 2014 property developer Crown Group Holdings completed the final apartments in its 653-apartment development, Top Ryde City Living. The seven-tower residential complex is home to more than 600 residents and positioned above Top Ryde City Shopping Centre with views to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Blue Mountains and North Shore.
The development was awarded the NSW President's award in 2014 by the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA).
On 21 May 2018, Blackstone announced that Top Ryde City is for sale which is worth $700 million.
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