Just months after 99 Bikes opened their second Sydney store in Brookvale (pictured here), a third 99 Bikes store is about to open in the old Bike Lab bike shop site in Bondi Junction. The target opening date is 17th April.
Both car parking and retail space are at a premium in Brookvale, which is an affluent northern beaches suburb. To maximise their retail space, 99 Bikes is also leasing a storage and workshop site in a light industrial facility, 500 metres up the road. Customers will drop off and pick up repairs from the main retail store, which will also retain a small workshop area for basic immediate repairs, fitting of accessory purchases etc.
Meanwhile in Queensland, 99 Bikes has taken over site of the former Goldcross Store in McGregor. This is a very large, ‘bulky goods’ shop site on the busy Kessels Road in Brisbane’s southern suburbs, which ran for many years as part of the Riders’ Cyclery group.
Before Goldcross owners Super Retail Group decided to close all of their traditional stand-alone Goldcross stores, they were using the McGregor store for both retail and as a warehouse and service workshop for some of their A-Mart based Goldcross stores in the region.
99 Bikes Brookvale Team Leader Gilbert Gutowski (left) with Chris Rowe-Spencer inside their new store, which was formerly the site of a major electrical goods retailer.
The new store is on the extremely busy intersection of Pittwater Road, the main arterial road for Sydney’s northern beaches, and Old Pittwater Road.