If you go down to the CBD today, you may be in for a big surprise.

Four weeks after the flood that devastated the Lismore CBD, a second supermarket in town has opened – and it has a new look.

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Lismore Central Shopping Centre has been refurbished and today the doors opened, unveiling a new look Woolworths supermarket.

Also open in the shopping centre is the Chempro Chemist, and there’s a coffee cart set up near where the Reject Shop was located.

Not only is Woolworths a lot smaller, but it is selling some of the electrical appliances and homewares previously sold by Big W (which was located in the Lismore Square).

A scout around the various isles and you will find all the basic necessities from food and frozen products - to pet and cleaning supplies (and there is a whole stand of bottles of vinegar).

In a post-flood town, the items on offer have been carefully chosen to reflect community needs – from cups and plates to electric frying pans, toys and bedding.

After the mouldy, musty flood smells we have all been subject to for weeks, the smell in the shopping centre is fresh, clean and warm.

Work is still underway inside the centre, but its opening today heralds the beginning of the hope-inspiring reinvigoration of our Central Business District.

A CBD that took a severe battering in Lismore’s biggest flood in living memory.