Killarney currently is home to consulates, tall residential building (including some of Johannesburg's best examples of Art Deco architecture) and a golf course.

[2] US-born Schlesinger wanted to transplant American ways to South African soil, and particularly to his domain, Killarney.

On the grounds currently occupied by the mall, he built African Film Studios, Johannesburg’s answer to Hollywood.

[2] In its adverts, African Realty Trust used to describe Killarney as ‘a garden, an orchard, a vineyard, an orangery, a shrubbery, a pinery, a paradise, a picnic spot, a health resort, a township and a home’.

If the construction workers accidentally spilt sand or some rubble over the sites’ boundaries, he immediately received a letter from Schlesinger’s office: ‘Please, keep Killarney clean!’ The area attracted many Jews.

Fay Susser-Sher remarks in her thesis on Killarney: ‘Often after having brought up children on large plots in the very affluent suburb of Lower Houghton, the parents, after the children had left home, sold the houses and then moved into flats in Killarney.’ [3] Many of them settled there for life.

A very prominent section consisted of affluent Jews, members of the Oxford Shul congregation, attended by Black domestic servants who lived in the outbuildings next to the block.

Though Pick ‘n Pay at the mall still has a large kosher department, the suburb has lost its predominantly Jewish character.