'One of Melbourne's finest examples of art deco architecture from the 1930s looks set to be knocked down to make way for an iconic new Apple Store. Lonsdale House, on Lonsdale Street near Caledonian Lane, will be bulldozed to make way for a new CBD shopping centre as part of the redevelopment of Myer.
The shopping centre, which will be called Emporium Melbourne, has been given the green light by the Victorian State Government.
Darren Steinberg, head of property at developer Colonial Global Asset Management, confirmed that the company was in talks with Apple over the iPhone maker becoming the flagship tenant.
An Apple store appeared as the hero store in the artist's interpretation of the completed project, and Colonial has already leased retail space to Apple in Melbourne's Chadstone and Sydney's Chatswood Chase shopping centres.'
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