LynnMall is a
shopping centre
A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof.
The first known collec ...
in
New Lynn
New Lynn is a residential suburb in West Auckland, New Zealand, located 10 kilometres to the southwest of the Auckland city centre. The suburb is located along the Whau River, one of the narrowest points of the North Island, and was the locatio ...
, a suburb of
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...
, New Zealand.
New Zealand's first shopping centre, LynnMall, has been servicing Auckland's western suburbs for over 50 years. Since opening in 1963, the centre has continued to evolve and in 2015 underwent redevelopment to incorporate an eight-screen cinema complex and an outdoor dining lane. Together with the existing
Farmers
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer mi ...
department store and
Countdown
A countdown is a sequence of backward counting to indicate the time remaining before an event is scheduled to occur. NASA commonly employs the terms "L-minus" and "T-minus" during the preparation for and anticipation of a rocket launch, and eve ...
supermarket, the centre provides a shopping destination in the developing town centre of New Lynn.
In January 2015, Lynnmall commenced a $36 million expansion, named ''Brickworks'', which included a new cinema, dining precinct and additional stores. In November that year, Brickworks officially opened to the public.
Seven people were injured in
a stabbing attack on 3 September 2021 at the mall, one of whom narrowly missed the knife but was still affected. The attacker
Ahamed Samsudeen
Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen (1988/1989 – 3 September 2021) was a New Zealand man of Sri Lankan origin. He was responsible for the 2021 Auckland supermarket stabbing, which resulted in the wounding of eight people. Nobody was killed in the ...
was shot and killed by police.
See also
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List of shopping centres in New Zealand
The following is a list of shopping centres in New Zealand.
For comparison, the largest mall in Canada, the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada has a retail space of 350,000 m2. The largest in the United States of America is the 230 ...
References
External links
LynnMall websiteThe Brickworks - LynnMall
{{Shopping centres in New Zealand
Shopping centres in the Auckland Region
Shopping malls established in 1963
Whau Local Board Area
1960s architecture in New Zealand
West Auckland, New Zealand