First store for state in city
RB Sellars now home in heritage style building
TOOWOOMBA’S Walton Stores has welcomed one of its newest tenants, and it is a first for Queensland.
RB Sellars opened its flagship Queensland store in the precinct last week, becoming the first clothing store amongst an array of food options.
The new store is located in an iconic heritage-style warehouse once home to furniture business Rosenstengal and Kleimeyer and now transformed by Aspect Architects and the Newlands Group.
RB Sellars CEO Keith Evans celebrated the store’s opening on Wednesday night and said he was happy to finally have a store in Toowoomba.
“The journey goes back a few years really because we have an awful lot of customers based in the Toowoomba region and the broader region off the back of our catalogue business and now our digital online business,” Mr Evans said.
“This is the best region our business has. So the opportunity to put a store here is perfect.
“We already have a connection with the community in a digital sense but to have it in a physical sense as well is idea.”
Mr Evans said planning for the store started in November and when they found the Walton Stores site they knew immediately where they would be going.
RB Sellars is famous for its royal Burton work shirts and affordable, quality country clothing for the whole family.
Its founder and creative director Richard Sellars added they looked forward to sharing an outstanding retail location that would provide the community with access to a great range of premium work wear, along with popular season garments and casual clothing.
Asepct Architects director and architect Wade Eiser was on hand to help the RB Sellars transform the former furniture business into their newest store.
“The building was built in 1898 and it was the largest brick building built in Queensland at the time,” Mr Eiser said.
He said the latest tenant of the building was a used furniture store before they took over the site in 2014.
With its beautiful exposed rafters and timber columns, Mr Eiser knew that they needed to wait for the right tenant to come along.
“When we came across RB Sellars we thought it was the right offering,” he said.
“We didn’t have to do too much to the space to make it great, but we enhanced it.”