Westfield Knox no longer carries a full-line department store. Myer, Harvey Norman, Toys “R” Us and Dick Smith have all left the centre over time, and the anchor role has shifted instead to a wide specialty and discount register led by Harris Scarfe, Muji, Uniqlo and Rebel. That transition now defines the centre’s leasing story.
Coles, Woolworths, Aldi, Kmart and Target hold the grocery and discount tier across roughly 384 stores, one of the deepest specialty counts in the network. JB Hi-Fi, TK Maxx, Chemist Warehouse and Priceline Pharmacy fill the mini-major layer beneath them.
JD Sports and MECCA anchor sport and beauty in the newer fashion mall precinct, alongside General Pants Co. and Glassons. Baby Bunting and The Reject Shop extend the format into family and variety retail rarely paired with a fashion-forward specialty mix.
Serving Melbourne’s outer south-east, Knox demonstrates a different leasing model to its department-store-anchored peers: depth of specialty and discount retail substituting for a single flagship anchor. For a brand assessing where department-store exits create the most open specialty space, Knox is one of Melbourne’s clearest examples.
