LSKD Hobart

Hobart presented a site that differed substantially from the contemporary shopping-centre environments in which the LSKD format had already been delivered. The store sits within a long, narrow heritage arcade tenancy, with inherited services, older-building conditions and no conventional external frontage.

The challenge was not to create a new Tasmanian concept, but to determine how the established LSKD format could operate within a very different architectural framework. The fixture system, customer journey and product offer all needed to remain recognisable while responding to a floorplate that required a different sequence.

Greater Group retained the established fixture family and material language while reorganising the store around the proportions and constraints of the arcade. Instead of forcing a planning model developed for wider mall tenancies into the site, the customer journey was stretched and re-sequenced along the length of the space.

Existing services and heritage conditions were incorporated into the planning and documentation, allowing the format to adjust to the building without changing the core elements customers associate with LSKD.

The completed Hobart store demonstrates that the LSKD retail system can operate beyond conventional shopping-centre tenancies. The format remains recognisable, but its planning has been reorganised around the character and physical limitations of the heritage arcade.

That flexibility broadens the type of sites the brand can consider as the network continues to grow. Rather than requiring every future tenancy to fit the format, the format has shown it can flex to suit a wider range of buildings.