Westfield Mt Gravatt (formerly known as Westfield Garden City and colloquially known as Garden City or Garbo)[2] is one of Brisbane's major shopping centres, located in the suburb of Upper Mount Gravatt in Queensland, Australia.
The shopping centre currently has 470 specialty stores, cafes, restaurants and other services and food vendors.
Within the centre is Upper Mount Gravatt Post Shop and Garden City Library.
[5] Garden City was constructed by Hooker Projects and pre-sold to the department store company David Jones Ltd in 1960.
One of the highlights of the opening day was a helicopter drop of a thousand ping pong balls some of which contained notes for prizes to be won.
Thousands of shoppers ran through the car park on the northern side of the centre trying to catch a prize ball.
In 2000, the outdoor dining and entertainment precinct known as Town Square was added in what was originally a small bus station zone and car park at the main entrance to the centre.
Two white painted breeze block walls at the rear of Grill’d and Mad Mex's are remnants of the original male and female public toilets that serviced the bus station.
As part of this expansion, a 16 screen Birch Carroll and Coyle Megaplex (now Event Cinemas) opened on the northern end of the centre.