For anyone wondering, the address is about 127 Henry Parry Dr, Gosford, NSW. It's the huge abandoned structure right across the park (not Imperial Centre Gosford).
Holy cow. I remember that place when it first opened. It was the shiny new place that everyone want to instead of the tired old dump that was the Imperial Centre. I think it was called MarketTown at the time. I had no idea it had been abandoned.
Used to be called Market town. back in it's day was one of 2 located in Gosford CBD. Before Erina Fair came along and made Gosford a ghost town........
I won’t gonna give my location due to living close to this, and it kinda hurts seeing a piece of my childhood be destroyed more and more with vandals who find it. but thank you guys so much for making this video, the place has been abandoned for a decade or so roughly now. And the content for it was extremely scarce for a abandoned mall. Only a few google photos. This marketplace holds dear memories to my heart as many of my early childhood memories were spent in it, had friends who’s parent’s owned stores, used to go shopping with my now deceased grandmother, first Christmas photos, etc. surprisingly the carpark was open until about late last year, this area has a parking crisis. The corridor leading up to the parking levels was pretty much pristine before the car park shut. No graffiti on the windows which I used to think were frightening from a high level as child, the view from those brung me back to a simpler time. Plus you get a great view of the cbd from them. You just don’t see designs like that anymore. Hopefully it doesn’t sit dormant for much longer. At least there’s shutters around it now meaning somethings at least on the way even if it’s in another decade.
I’m happy i can preserve these memories for you even though the place is in such a bad state. That’s why i have this channel, to archive these things 😊
@@AbandonedOZ good on you, keep creating these, bet there’s many who share the same views on seeing stuff like this. things change in life but photographs are like memories. They stay the same. This place will exist in its various states forever on here.
Sad end to a once great shopping centre opened in 1979 with Waltons and shoeys supermarket the Coles upstairs was previously Franklins big fresh before that Norman Ross and the upper level of Waltons the food court was once a great restraunt called Oscars which you could sit and look out over kibble park
Wow, I didn't have a clue what shopping centre this was until the outside shot. I used to live and work a few blocks away. I remember when it was a bit run down, but still open, then they brought in a large supermarket, Macca's, Wendy's etc and for a while it was doing great. Then I moved to a different area. I don't know what the catalyst for it to start going down hill, but in the end apparently it was just the newsagents in the centre, and he had to just close, couldn't sell the business. Now it just sits abandoned. You hear plans about it every now and then, and the plans just disappear. Sad, I always liked this shopping centre.
So many fond memories at this shopping centre as a child shopping with my Mum and Aunty. Love our big trips into town to go shopping and have lunch in the Walton’s cafeteria. I knew where it was before I saw the end 🥰 thank you for sharing. So sad it’s so trashed now 😞
@@deventted popularity in the area decreased when A bigger shopping centre was built about 8 minutes away. Then they built a westfeild shopping town 20 minutes in the opposite direction. These guys couldn’t compete anymore 😢
My mum worked there when it was first opened in 1979, she worked in Waltons, which was on most of the lower floor, so many memories of growing up in the area, Im still here now and its sad to see what grubs have done to the inside of it. We use to ride our skateboards down the bwndy walkway!! Moat of my christmas photos were done in there, It was calles Marketown, which is what most locals still call the building today!! I did notice last week more ferals have gotten in and graffitied the windows of oscars restaurant....its passed hands a couple of times over the last decade. There was talk of the library going in there, and newcastle uni also, but they are knocking down another of our old buildings up the road for their next central coast campus. We dont need any more apartment blocks and shit moving up here from Sydney, we dont have the infrastructure for it
Looks like the car park has a similar design to the Whitehorse Plaza car park in Box Hill which was built in the early 1970s. It’s in Melbourne and is still doing really well today and it was also redeveloped between 1998 and 2000 with its interior being completely gutted/demolished and rebuilt. The centre itself there also shares a lot in common architecturally with the newer Box Hill shopping centre that was opened in 1987 and built by Centro.
Gppd video! A couple of thing noticed when watching. Just after 4:08 heard a bang in the background.. Also, just after 4:47, noticed someone run off from the small door that comes into view at the right of the frame. Not sure if either of these was the others with you near the end. I wonder when the shopping centre was built? I grew up on the central coast through the 80's(From San Remo to Budgewoi to Tuggerah and Tumbi Umbi) While visits to Gosford rarely occured for shopping, did have family that moved there. So I'm sure I remember being in that shopping centre!
If you think this place looks like bad and keen to explore an even worse shopping centre located only 10 mins from this one ..and are brave enough go to Woy Woy and look around the Deep Water Plaza. At Deep Water Plaza you can even see most of the shoppers who use to shop at this one, Market Town in Gosford....they had nowhere to go its a terrifying adventure especially in the middle of the any day during the week .
Ahhh after searching for the location of this building for a while, I finally found it. Not where I thought it would be but looking at the surroundings it occurred to me to check out this location and bingo. Its sad to see buildings like this sitting there for years doing nothing but falling into disrepair. There are a few out my way also.
I remember years ago we were looking for a new facility to move our workshop & this one place we came across had been abandoned many years ago it was really spooky walking around the place until we came across the bathrooms and every single cubicle someone had taken a dump in the bowl and not flushed them, we called them the phantom crapper
i remember marketplace opening, originally Waltons dept store was there, and Franklins. , it staggered along for years, eventually closing and used for parking, by the counci;, thats closed now as well,
I'm pretty sure Myers was there originally because my family travelled down to Gosford to go there instead of going to Sydney. We had a Walton's in Newcastle we didn't have a Myers.
As soon as i seen the front of the shopping cnetre i knew exactly where this is...... used to attend TAFE around the corner. Sad to see it go this way.
Lived in Point Clare and worked in Gosford 2001 to 2004. I recall shopping at Coles, it hadn't been there that long from memory? Not sure was it a Franklin's Big Fresh before? There was a medical place in building, also I think a place you got bloods taken. Sadly, the building was tired around the edges then.
Huge potential in Gosford, the gateway to the coast and the council have made a rhinos breakfast of it,close to Sydney and when its sorted out will be a magnificent location
I just saw its in Gosford nsw. Can anyone give insight on the best entrance to get in? Even show us on google maps screen capture what's the best place to squeeze in
New owners secured the site with in the last year and I believe are in there doing demo work. Not sure it’s worth an attempt now but you can always try.
The rent fees must have been "reasonable" there is nothing more frightening than walking in a shop and paying $50 for an item when you now it's real value is $5 and other $45 is rent racqueteering money that shop must pay to survive, that's why I don't eat at restaurants nowdays when I know that $90 of menue price is just to cover the rent.
I used to shop there in the 90s. It had Franklins there at one time if I gave the correct place. Across the road was Spotlight. Sad to see this. Unfortunately Erina and Tuggerah took the shoppers away from Gosford itself. Gosford was a lovely place.
Gosford was a great place up until the 90s or so. I grew up there in the 60s and 70s. Then they opened a methodone clinic at Gosford Hospital and the junkies arrived. Plus commerce moved to Erina Fair. Not a place to walk the streets after dark.
@@tonynew3047 I heard that. Honestly, I love the Central Coast and miss it. Umina, Woy Woy, Ettalong...very hard to beat for beauty. Poor Gosford. I do hope I move back there one day...moved with hubby to NZ. It's pretty good too.
There are quite a few videos on here about this large former shopping centre in gosford. Anyone who went there wejt it was open and watched other lengthy videos would recognise it easily.
I know this centre and have always wondered given its size and location why its not been re-purposed .... some time ago talk was turning into a university but thats faded...its so close to a major transport hub its just waiting for the right idea ...
This made me genuinely sad. Used to love going there, especially to Sam’s Warehouse. Also seriously surprised you didn’t run into anyone else in there because I’ve seen so many people breaking in. Typical for that place though. 😐
Abandoned oz, did you get in climbing around the fence in the driveway or another way. I’m going there soon but haven’t seen anyone enter except in dangerous ways.
I'm sure there used to be a Galo Galo near Coles, when we went there last in around 2008 or 2009 many of the shops on lower level were temp pop up like stores. I may have some pics from a fashion parade inside there family was involved in. After being closed for a while a Christian group took over the front shop as a Cafe, abbey Cafe it may have been called.
I grew up shopping in this shopping centre, we use to call it market town and as far as im aware it closed early 2000s but carpark on top levels was still open until 2018, they deemed the place to have concrete cancer from what i remember in the news and was structurally unsafe, but coukd be wrong with that, just research
Imagine if there was already apartments above all that retail space. Instead we just keep spreading out and building more shopping centres with wasted opportunity for more housing they call to it under utilised and costly oversight and down line expense lending to failures with in the expenses and losses. Be it more roads and heavy infrastructure spreading. This country loves it's hatricks.
I’ve never quite understood the state governments understanding of regional boundaries. For me, Greater Sydney is the Sydney basin. North, South, East, West. Once you pass over rivers and mountains or drive for more than an hour on a freeway you are no longer in Sydney. Wollongong is not Sydney. Gosford is not Sydney. Gosford lies with the Central Coast region which is huge!!! Don’t group these areas into Sydney as it removes extra funding which is needed to help develop what are essentially “regional” locations.
It's sad that Ozzies can't resist destroying stuff that isn't theirs. When I visited recently, I was shocked at the disgusting and despicable behaviour Australians think is acceptable in public. Will never visit the place again.
I live not far from here. I’m a local, but I honestly can’t tell you when this closed down. I remember going here when I was 18 and buying sushi 😅 the car park there was used for a while even in 2018 as I would park there appointments I would have in gateway in gosford. Sad really I don’t know why they let it just rot.. 😢
Same here, used to come there with family for the Christmas photos when we weren’t shopping there regularly, it’s like seeing a part of your childhood crumble
The Lederer group purchased it for 13mil in 2016. And they lodged 850 mil plan for mixed residential and commercial. Seems now plans for 345 mil instead.
There’s photos online from various times in its life, ranging from the 70s look to the retrofitted last one. You just have to look a bit. Now I was pretty young when I used to shop here, but I can assure you that it pretty much resembled a two storey small shopping mall. Like the ones you may see in country towns, with the stores surrounding the escalator, and a little stage on the first storey. Amusingly i remember the lighting was very pinkish. Like the type you’d see in a butcher.
There used be a really nice coffee shop on the corner of this shopping centre, at street level. Went years ago. Sad, as they used to do great coffee in there.
I remembering frequenting this shopping center around 02 or 03 and it was dead then. I am surprise it lasted so long. Unless it been closed for years and I just didnt notice? I cant seem to find any information on when the place actually closed.
Unsure why you don't just post the location. If someone is keen enough to want to get in, they'll find where it is. I'm not from the Central Coast and identified the centre in 3 minutes flat with a few quick Google searches.
With a little bit of work from Council and Owners ..how many could just the car park house for homeless at Night to get a good nights sleep.. ? even set up showers .. food wagons .. where are these people that win lotto ... com-on now .. some of you know what its like to be poor and underprivileged ... !!
If it had a sam’s wherehouse that place wood have been closed about 8-10 years ago five or take .. that hill side outside makes me think it’s out west some where.. looks like to there has been un new shopping centre built across the road with seeing the woollies sign and a mac’s out the window going down the ramp
Definitely not west, but all the other details are strikingly similar, it did shut down a decade ago, New Year’s Eve 2010 to be exact. I won’t drop names but yes, there’s a complex across from it that houses many stores, such as the Woolies that is on the second floor, (where the ramp is) and the maccas being on the first level. It’s not that new actually, the second mall that’s still in use was made roughly around the same time as this old one, two separate locations yet felt like one, pretty common in the pre Westfield days. This old one being more or less the more maturer convenient stores, and the one that’s still kicking being the more leisure based trendy one. It got retrofitted quite a few years ago thus why it looks fresh.
@@smophie6260 I read that the Imperial centre was built in 1975. It says Market Town was built in 1979. Imperial Centre looked really old on the outside before before the refurbish/brick rendering/painting and roof tile painting on the front/side fascia boards. The inside looked a lot older too.
SFO - might be Sydney Factory Outlet. Some sort of factory outlet anyway. Ummm... you literally told us you did some research on it but in the video you said NOTHING - not one word - of its history. From the comments I know it was opened in 1979, but we are left no clue when it closed.
