Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Happy New Year everyone!

Happy New Year!!!
Wishing all our local residents, customers and tenants a fabulous New Years eve and a 
loving, healthy and happy 2014.

See you all at
Hillsdon Road Centre in 2014.

abode cafe
Smooth@Taringa
The LITTLE Art Studio
The Convenience Store
Pampered Pets
Sextons Washing Machine Repairs

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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Merry Christmas to you all!

Merry Christmas 
to all our lovely locals, residents and tenants!
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We wish you a very happy and joyous holiday season.
And we thank you for your support of our little
local Centre and it's businesses.  

These days with major shopping Centres getting bigger and
 more and more strip Centres opening 
on the main roads.  It's tough 
for our wonderful business owners to keep 
customers coming in.  We all work hard to 
ensure Hillsdon Road Centre looks
green, clean, relaxing and inviting. 
We have more exciting changes
coming in 2014!

We appreciate the locals and regulars who keep coming to 
Hillsdon Road Centre.
To support our small business people and their staff.
Our little Centres are rare gems in the suburbs
and to keep us here and in the future 
we just need:
YOU!



 

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Taringa's Abode Cafe Open!


We are very excited to announce that 'abode cafe' opened it's doors to the newly renovated interior yesterday.

It's a lovely, fresh little space with seating along the wall and a fabulous long table in the picture window.  Bronwyn has refurbished the original old tongue & groove wall boards and the old push out windows along the back wall.  These date back to the original old Corner Store.  It gives the space a lovely ambience, matched with some special green tiling, funky light fittings and best of all that big oven for baking all those yummy cakes and goodies. 

abode cafe will be open every day from 7am till 3pm.  

We hope this lovely business, will bring back the social hub that Hillsdon Road Centre has always been.   Stop, relax, enjoy some fabulous coffee and delicious baking.  

 

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Espresso on Saturdays too!

Abode Cafe's little cart will be serving espresso and some delish goodies on Saturday's now too.  

7am till 11 am Mon - Sat.

Whether you are passing by, catching the bus, getting pampered at 'Smooth', buying some art or jewellery at 'The LITTLE Art Studio' or doing your laundry!  

What everyone has been waiting for is now right there in our lovely garden courtyard.  So, pop on in...say *hello* to Bronwyn and enjoy.





Monday, November 25, 2013

Espresso fix in Taringa at last!!

Remember those lovely days relaxing in the beautiful courtyard at Hillsdon Road, enjoying a coffee, looking up to Mt Cootha?   Well.......while the renovations are under way to the shop, Abode Cafe has set up a Coffee Cart and will be serving coffee in the courtyard.  
Monday to Friday 7am till 11am.

So pop on in, get your fix of good, delicious espresso.  yay!

    


Thursday, November 14, 2013

Art in your suburbs

We are so lucky to have our own little Art space at Hillsdon Road.  Leesa and The LITTLE Art Studio has for the last two years made it way more interesting to walk along Hillsdon Road.

The LITTLE Art Studio has a range of local, original artworks and craft pieces in this quirky little shop.  Walk in and enjoy the gallery space that Leesa has created.  Lots to look at and very good prices too.  Perfect for that unique Christmas present.  Out the back artist and our tenant Leesa creates her own range of fabulous pieces, in the studio space.  The Gallery is open most days, so if you are walking past, using the laundromat, picking up your dog from Pampered Pets or just popping in to grab something from the Corner Store....take a minute and pop in and check out the creative works of local artists.

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Espresso coming soon!



                    Coming Soon!  Exciting new Tenant!  Finally...... back at Hillsdon Road Centre will be good coffee, good food and another great business.  

'Abode Cafe' is under renovation, but will soon be serving local residents, clients and us a good serve of caffeine and fresh baked, made on site goodies.  

Our pocket of Taringa is missing our own special little coffee spot, somewhere quiet to meet friends, have a business meeting or just grab a quick takeaway while you wait for the bus.  Laundromat customers will be able to relax and enjoy a good coffee while they wait.  Smooth's clients will be able to truly indulge themselves!

So we hope that we can bring the HUB back to Hillsdon, just like in the good old days  :)


Monday, October 28, 2013

Family, community, unique and local

It's been here since the 1930's but only since the Sexton brothers purchased the Centre in 1994 did the dream/plan to create a green space unfold.  The courtyard became a vision of Geoff, Peter and Bill's when deciding to turn the old flat into shop space.  Originally the current courtyard area was about a metre lower and was grass, behind a old timber fence.  With the boys plan the area was built up and paved.  One original item, probably 30 years old, is the beautiful Camellia tree, sitting as the pride of the place.  Karen fusses over it and tries to ensure that it continues to thrive and survive. 
The old corner store was attached to the flat because the flat was originally built to home the founding family's son after he came back from the war.  The founding family the Andronicus's owned and operated the corner store and Iris Andronicus still lives locally and visits the shops.  It was a mix of grocery, vegetables, haberdashery and hardware items. Many of the older residents from the original Taringa homesteads, remember the Shop as the Pauls Milk Depot.

It has been nearly 20 years since the Sexton brothers purchased the Centre and it is now owned solely by Geoff and Karen.   Geoff loves the garden, his Laundromat and the community feel of the Centre.  You will find him out there most Sundays or Mondays, mowing the lawn, gardening, painting and pottering about.  Peter still works out the back from the shed, repairing washing machines like his Dad, Max Sexton.  Max lived in Gladstone Street and raised the family in the Indooroopilly - Taringa area, operating 'Sextons Washing Machine Repairs'.  Geoff has memories of coming down to the Centre with his Mum, Thelma to visit the butcher that was located where Pampered Pets is now.  Geoff and Karen have lived in the area on and off since 1998, in Broomfield Street, Stanley Street and Waverley Road.  Sister Jenny and her family still lives at the family home in Gladstone Street.  And all the Sexton kids went to Indooroopilly State School too. 

So, the family feel, the community hub and the future of Hillsdon Road Centre is firmly part of our family future.  We hope this little secret space continues to bring the local residents an enjoyable green space, great facilities and convenience away from the busy Indooroopilly Shoppingtown and Moggill Road.  We will continue to maintain the heritage of the corner store, that is Commercial Character listed and keep that beautiful unique green space of the Courtyard there for you all.  We believe there is a future in Town Planning for these truly *local* shopping hubs and that although Brisbane City Council tends to forget about us, re zone us and sometimes make it difficult for the business owners to grow and be successful.  We love our little Centre and will do our best to keep it local and friendly.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Smooth at Taringa, excellence in skin care

We feel so lucky to have Smooth in our lovely little centre.  Annie is not only a wonderful Tenant, but provides excellence in skin care and beauty treatments.   Annie and the Staff work hard at ensuring Smooth at Taringa provides an excellent range of beauty therapy services and advanced skin solutions for women and men of all ages and all skin types.

All the staff are experienced, friendly therapists and the Doctor are fully qualified in their field of expertise and are happy to provide a thorough consultation to achieve the best results for you with quality care and minimal downtime at affordable prices.
Our team members are constantly updating their skills to provide you with the very best and latest information in the beauty industry and you can feel safe knowing that they are fully qualified and certified in the use of the clinic equipment, which also meets TGA and FDA approvals.

We only use and recommend professional cosmeceuticals for treatments and prescribed homecare to ensure guaranteed results.


So if you haven't been and indulged, pampered and treated yourself and your skin....now is a great time to start!  

You can find Smooth, nestled in the leafy green Courtyard of Hillsdon Road Centre, on Goldsbrough Road.  Parking on the street just out front.  

Contact Smooth ~ 3870 0029

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Courtyard @ Hillsdon

The courtyard is looking lovely after a day or rain.  And Shop 2 is in the process of being refurbished.  Seeing all the beautiful history and vintage assets when the panels come down.  Beautiful old windows letting some light in!

Sunday, October 13, 2013

In the works...

 UPDATE!!

Sassi is now enjoying a larger space, a new fitout and the fabulous neighbouring businesses at The Cat & Fiddle Centre at Auchenflower.  We wish them much success in this larger enterprise. 

In regard to their old space in the courtyard.  As you will have seen the Council DA signage has been up nearly the time it's required.  And yes we know it has confused some people with it's 'Restaurant/Cafe' title.  But to clarify the application is for a Cafe, the classification is Councils standard one for any business that wants to install any cooking equipment in a food business.  Our new tenant Bronwyn will be hoping that once DA is approved, without successful objections that she can start the fitout and refurbishment.   We handed over the keys to Bronwyn on Friday and she enjoyed a celebration yesterday with her family coming down to look at her new business.  

I am sure everyone will be as excited as we are when they see the beautiful food, baked goods and excellent coffee Bronwyn will be producing.  

So fingers crossed that the application is approved promptly by Council and we can soon enjoy a delicious espresso in that lovely Courtyard again!

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Changes are coming to the Courtyard.....

Some exciting changes to Hillsdon Road Centre in the Courtyard coming soon!!

We hope to be able to *spill the beans* by next week.  

 

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Hello 2013



Welcome to 2013 at Hillsdon Road Centre.
   
All your wonderful businesses will be back and ready to look after you.

Hillsdon Convenience open 7 days from 7am till 7pm.  3371 7250
Indooroopilly Laundromat open 7 days from 7am till 9pm.

Smooth Skin Management open Monday (by appointment) to Saturday.  3870 0029 
Baumann Surveyors open Monday to Friday. 3371 4899  
Pampered Pets Grooming open Monday to Saturday. 3870 1239
P & L Sexton Washing Machine Repairs Open Mon to Friday.  3870 4664   

Easy street parking and a lovely shady courtyard for you to relax in.