Burwood special.

Depite being the location of Australia's first drive in theatre, Burwood has always struck me as a staid suburban kind of place. This is one of the local plazas- Burwood Heights, on the corner of Middleborough Road & Burwood Highway:

It's not particularly good from the inside either, although it does boast two RSPCA op shops- one cheap and one as expensive as you like: $600 vintage Japanese tea set, anyone?

But down on the corner of Blackburn Road, the next main road along the highway, the old KMart has been revamped and extended into something called Burwood One.

This place is immense, wrapped around three sides of a fairly big carpark. Look at it- it even has a TAB:

The Coles sells clothes and televisions and homewares-y stuff as well as groceries and frankly it is hard to tell if you are in there or in KMart. Oh and did I mention they are both open 24 hours?

Some of the spaces inside are a bit random and brutal but overall I give the One a 10.