Westfield WestCity

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Westfield WestCity
Westfield WestCity
Facts and statistics
Location Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand
Coordinates 36°52′52″S 174°37′59″E / -36.8812, 174.6331Coordinates: 36°52′52″S 174°37′59″E / -36.8812, 174.6331
Opening date 1974
Management Westfield Group
Owner Westfield Group
No. of stores and services 230 [1]
No. of anchor tenants 4
Total retail floor area 36,921 m² (397,414 sq ft)
Parking 1,492 spaces
No. of floors 3
Website westfield.com/westcity
Footnotes
Information cited above in article or from Westfield.[2]
Westfield WestCity looking eastwards along the southern frontage.
Westfield WestCity looking eastwards along the southern frontage.

Westfield WestCity is a major regional shopping centre located in Henderson, a suburb of Waitakere, Auckland, New Zealand, 15.9 kilometres (9.9 mi) west of the Auckland CBD. It is immediately adjacent to Waitakere Mega Centre, an integrated bulk retail centre, and is in direct competition with Lynnmall in New Lynn and another Westfield Group centre Westfield St Lukes in Morningside.

The centre has a current catchment area of 174,340 persons, and annual turnover at the centre for 2006 was $161.1 m NZD with 8.5 million visitors per year.[2]

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[edit] History and development

The shopping centre had its origins in the 1960s, when the Henderson Borough Council established it, with the first stage opened in 1968, with a Woolworth's store as the main tenant. The second and third stages followed by 1970, and by 1974 the centre rivalled LynnMall in size.[3] In 1997, St Lukes Group redeveloped the centre and renamed it WestCity Shopping Centre,[2] a name Westfield kept (plus the standardised 'Westfield' prefix) after purchase of the property. In 2000, Westfield began a 16-month, $80 million redevelopment program. The result was the first "Street" entertainment and leisure precinct in New Zealand, launched at WestCity in July 2001.[2]

[edit] Transport

The centre is accessible via the nearby Henderson Train Station and by bus services from Britomart Transport Centre and New Lynn Train Station.

[edit] Facilities

The centre contains the SkyCity 8-screen cinemas.

[edit] Major retailers

Major retailers operating within the shopping centre include;[2]

[edit] Major food restaurants

Major food retailers within the centre include:[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Our stores (from the Westfield Group website. Accessed 2008-01-21.)
  2. ^ a b c d e Property Portfolio - Westfield WestCity (en-au). Westfield Group. Retrieved on 2007-08-05.
  3. ^ A brief history of Henderson (from the Waitakere City Council website. Accessed 2008-06-07.)
  4. ^ Our Stores - Westfield WestCity. Westfield Group. Retrieved on 2007-07-17.

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