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Fears $40m plan for Queen Vic Market will turn it into shopping centre – The Age
A plan to add two sheds to Queen Victoria Market has renewed fears the historic site will be turned into something resembling a shopping centre.
Ms Faine said the group believed traders would be forced to store goods and perishables in the sheds and that they were being built to accommodate franchises moving into the market.
It will look more and more like a shopping centre, thats the bottom line, she said.
These are designed to turn the market into a shopping centre and into an entertainment precinct.
The markets chief executive, Stan Liacos, welcomed the development and rejected the claim it was part of a plan to turn the market into a…
