# Frankston Power Centre

The Frankston Power Centre, also colloquially known as "The Power Centre" (previously the Frankston Homemaker Centre), is a hard goods retail park run by Spotlight Group within the approximate centre of Frankston, being around 40 kilometres south of Melbourne's CBD. The complex comprises 30 large format independent stores, including parking for 1300 vehicles (including 425 underground parking spaces). Across from the complex are stores such as the hardware superstore Bunnings and JB Hi-Fi, but these are not run by the Spotlight Group. The Power Centre is located at the crossroads of three major arterials; Cranbourne Road, McMahons Road and the Frankston Freeway.

## History

Peninsula Power Management bought around 90,000 m$^2$ (963445 sq ft) in what is the nominal geographic centre of Frankston. They developed it into what it is today at an estimated value of $60 million. It features 45,000 m$^2$ (481723 sq ft) of bulky goods retail facilities.
The initial purchaser has an unknown whereabouts today. Today, the park is owned by the Spotlight Group, who features a store inside the centre. This ownership stems from unknown factors.
Since 2016, a plan for a major revamp of the retail park has been floating around. The proposal would have involved a children's entertainment area, upgraded food court centre, and more in the centre of the complex. The owners however, have expressed concerns on what would next occur, referring to the unpredictability of the future for the centre, and thus future construction has been halted.

## Retailers

Retailers at the Frankston Power Centre include a variety of specialty stores, hardware stores, and more.
Major retailers include The Good Guys, Harvey Norman, Freedom, Spotlight and Anaconda.
It also includes minor retailers including Forty Winks, Petbarn, AMart, Adairs, Harris Scarfe, Nick Scali, Carpet Call, and more. It also includes a minor food court within its centre, with minor retailers within.

## Accessibility and Location

It can be accessed via car, bus and train, through certain routes. These routes include parking spaces accessible from Gertrude Street, McMahons Road in addition to Cranbourne Road. In addition to this, a bus service serves the location, with routes 789, 790 and 791 respectively.
The Leawarra Station, situated on the Stony Point Line of the Melbourne Train Network is approximately 500 metres away from the centre. This connection to the station will become even more effective once the electrification of the line is completed.
The Frankston Power Centre is located directly in the middle of Bayside Shopping Centre and Karingal Hub Shopping Centre, the two main shopping centres in the Frankston Suburb. In addition to this, the intersection the retail park is situated in features multiple fuel stations such as 7-Eleven and United Petroleum as well as a Subway and Carwash.

## Incidents

3 October 2019, at 6:40am, a car purposefully rammed into the Power Centres' Food Court doors, attempting to steal an ATM. It is currently unknown how much money they got away with, due to them escaping on foot. The perpetrators were likely inspired by the successful attacks on the nearby Peninsula Homemaker Centre a month prior (not to be confused with the Frankston Homemaker Centre, now Frankston Power Centre) in Mornington. ,