There are many different types of
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 colle ...
s In Australia. In 2018, the Shopping Centre Council of Australia Identified Australia had 1,630 existing shopping centres, being defined as a major Integrated retail centre with at least of lettable retail floor-space, with over 65,000 specialty shops.
Of the 1,630 shopping centres, 78 are defined as regional centres, 96 as
central business district
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ...
centres, 291 as sub-regional centres (being those that include at least one discount department store as the major anchor tenant) and 1,120 Neighbourhood or supermarket-based shopping centres. The remaining centres are smaller sub-regional centres, neighbourhood centres or speciality shops with typically less than
gross leasable area
In architecture, construction, and real estate, floor area, floor space, or floorspace is the area (measured as square feet or square metres) taken up by a building or part of it. The ways of defining "floor area" depend on what factors of the buil ...
.
List by gross leasable area
List by number of stores
The number of stores recorded in this list is approximate only, and subject to regular change.
See also
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List of shopping centres in Australia
This is a list of notable shopping centres in Australia. It does not include street shopping strips such as Chapel Street, Melbourne or Oxford Street, Sydney which were prevalent in Australian cities until the 1960s.
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List of Westfield Group shopping centres in Australia
The following is a list of properties owned by Scentre Group, an Australian commercial real estate company with assets in Australia and New Zealand. Their portfolio includes a number of Westfield-branded shopping centres that were originally o ...
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Shopping centres, largest
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...
Shopping centres
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 ...