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BAC Managing Director and CEO Koen Rooijmans: “DFO has made a minimum 20-year commitment to BAC as anchor tenant of Number 1 Airport Drive, and we are pleased they have stuck with us through some very difficult challenges.” |
AUSTRALIA. After nearly three years of planning and legal debate, Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) today opens what it describes as “Australia’s most innovative on-airport retail development”, Number 1 Airport Drive.
The retail complex features a 24,000sq m Direct Factory Outlet (DFO).
Airport staff will have the first exclusive glimpse of the DFO tonight, with the doors open to the public at 10am tomorrow (8 September). The centre will trade from 10am to 6pm seven days a week.
Large crowds are predicted for the first weekend of trading. Extra traffic marshalls will be on hand, and visitors have been urged to be patient.
DFO is Australia’s largest factory outlet centre operator, housing individual brand outlet stores in one purpose-built, architect-designed and air-conditioned building. More than 100 premium brand stores have filled the centre, including fashion, footwear and homewares at heavily discounted prices.
BAC CEO Koen Rooijmans said it was important that the first building on the unique Number 1 Airport Drive precinct had widespread community appeal. This helped to create a vibrant commercial environment that would attract office buildings, sport and recreation facilities, entertainment, childcare and other features of the emerging “˜Airport City’.
“DFO has made a minimum 20-year commitment to BAC as anchor tenant of Number 1 Airport Drive, and we are pleased they have stuck with us through some very difficult challenges, including more than two years in the Federal Court,” Rooijmans said.
“Ironically, the immense publicity that was generated over this time has led to huge national interest in the DFO and, more importantly, in Number 1 Airport Drive as an alternative commercial precinct to the traditional CBD and suburban office and technology parks.”
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