Westfield Innaloo is a major shopping centre in the northern suburbs of

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. It is located at the corner of

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and Ellen Stirling Boulevard (formerly Oswald Street) in Innaloo, approximately north-west of the

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. The shopping centre is approximately , or 3 minutes by bus, from Stirling Train Station, and is part of Stirling City Centre. In 2020 the shopping centre was intended to be rebranded to Westfield Stirling, but that has not happened. Honouring James Stirling, after whom the

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is named in which Westfield Innaloo is situated and which is itself facing calls to rename, is increasingly under pressure, because Stirling personally led the attack on a group of approximately seventy Bindjareb men, women and children on 28 October 1834 now known as the Pinjarra massacre. That massacre lasted at least an hour and resulted in the deaths of one soldier and an estimated 15–30 men, women and children.

History

The shopping centre, originally known as ''Innaloo Shoppers Village'', was developed in 1967 to service Innaloo and newly developed

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. It was the second shopping centre built north of the Swan River and opened with about 30 stores plus a Boans (later Aherns) department store and Woolworths supermarket. A

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store, and a

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(known as Coles New World at the time), were added to the centre in 1980. The centre was acquired by

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in 1983. Nine years later, the centre's name was changed to Innaloo City Centre and a 375-seat food court and

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were added. In 1996,

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acquired the centre and changed its name to Westfield Innaloo. In 2004–05, the centre grew in size by over 25% as more than 30 specialty stores were added and the Coles supermarket was relocated. In July 2014 the Westfield Group became two companies (

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and

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), with ownership and management of the centre transferring to Scentre Group. A new entrance was also built to go with previously erected signage nearby, and Westfield acquired the adjacent Centro Innaloo and renamed it Innaloo Megacentre.

Future development

In December 2019 Scentre Group announced it had deferred a redevelopment of Westfield Innaloo. The $600 million work would have seen the complex doubling in size to of retail space, joining Westfield Carousel as Western Australia's biggest shopping centre.

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* * {{Shopping Centres in Perth Westfield Group Shopping centres in Perth, Western Australia Shopping malls established in 1967 1967 establishments in Australia City of Stirling