Stockland Corporation Limited is a diversified Australian property development company.
Stockland was founded in 1952 by Albert Scheinberg and Ervin Graf.
[3] In 1957 Stockland listed on the Australian Stock Exchange by acquiring a controlling interest in Simon Hickey Industries Ltd, the smallest company then listed.
[citation needed] In the same year, Stockland's activities became more diversified, moving into commercial development, initially with retail projects in suburbs of Sydney.
In 1965 Stockland opened its first big commercial development - the redeveloped Imperial Arcade, Sydney in Sydney's CBD, which offered the first underground link to David Jones, four retail levels and six levels of office space.