page_title: Dimmeys
section_title: Swan St store
hierarchical_section_title: Dimmeys / Swan St store
caption_attribution_description: English: Dimmey's Store on Swan St in Cremorne
context_page_description: Dimmeys is an Australian discount department store chain. Founded as a gold-rush era drapery "Dimelow & Gaylard's", in rural Maryborough, the business became colloquially known as 'Dimmeys'. In the early 1900s the business name was changed.
  Over the late 1900s the chain evolved from larger traditional Department stores to smaller 'bargain stores' in more locations. In 2014, the business had more than 40 stores spread across eastern and southern Australia. In November 2019, Dimmeys announced it would be closing down.
context_section_description: The Swan Street premises is listed as having "architectural and historical significance to the state of Victoria" with Heritage Victoria.
  In 1997, the Swan Street store's clock tower and globe was ranked first in The Age newspaper's 'Melbourne Icons' series. The clock tower was painted yellow and black in 1981 to mark the 350th AFL game of Richmond footballer Kevin Bartlett.
  In 2004, the local artist Hayden Dewar was commissioned to paint a series of murals representing the history of the store and of Victoria since 1853 along the Green Street facade of the Swan Street store. The work stretches for 67 metres.
  In 2008, the building was sold to developers Richmond Icon for around $16 million. The developers later announced plans to build a ten-storey residential building on the site, preserving the heritage listed clock-tower and frontage, but including the destruction of several metres of the mural. The original plan was contested by the council on a number of grounds, with the outcome that the mural was preserved.
  The Dimmeys store closed in December 2012. The building was redeveloped with a Coles supermarket and a 10-storey apartment tower erected at the rear of the building. The clock tower was stripped back to its original brickwork and waterproofed.
caption: The Dimmeys clock tower after its restoration and redevelopment of the Swan Street building
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