REBUILDING SYDNEY
NEW SHOPPING BLOCK SYONIvY. March 21. The skyline in the heart of the city—in Market St**** between George and Pitt streets, and opposite Farmer's great. e*q»ri«ra—Will shortly be dominated by vet another towering braiding, to ha known as the State shopptpg block. The m«!sive strnciniv. now on the verse of completion, will be another monu tnent t<i the enterprise ot I'nion 'llieatres, Ltd.. and eu.qwm witness, if such is needed, to the fact that the moving picture business pays. The site {done of (he building cost; about a quarter of a million. That the, building uselt, with its towering Gothic piling and arches and great dome, its hixnriouslv-appomiod theatre, its 12 floors of modern shops, each set ont as an arcade, with groat display windows, its six express elevator services, and other appointments, will cost n fortune, can readily !>e understood. An estimate, based, no dotdn, on attendances al. other picture sImWS in the city, is that the theatre al.>no. apart front the shops, will attract mom than 40.000 people a week. It is yet another of the many giant' projects which attest the faith oi ;lwso behind them, in the city and its future.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 11
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197REBUILDING SYDNEY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 11
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