sentences:  In December 1985, developers Hudson Conway paid $1.25m for the adjacent former brickworks, despite a proposed open-space order on the site approved by the former Hawthorn Council ten years prior.Hudson Conway proposed extending the shopping centre into the brickworks site, substantially expanding the centre and including a discount department store.By 1990, Hudson Conway had varied its proposal several times to include potential combinations of a commercial centre, offices and hotel blocks.