Roxby Central

Richardson Place, Roxby Downs, South Australia

Roxby Downs, located 570km north-west of Adelaide, is a mining town purpose-built to house and service the employees of BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam Mine and the services and trades that support the mine. Today Roxby has a permanent population of around 4,500 people plus a large semi-permanent (fly-in, fly-out) population.

Roxby Central was purchased by PPI in 1995 and has been substantially developed in stages. Today it comprises a 5,000sqm neighbourhood shopping centre anchored by a Woolworths supermarket and 23 specialty stores as well as a stand-alone 2,500sqm Mitre 10 hardware centre, 2,250sqm tavern and 2,600sqm Motor Inn.