Glenfield Mall is an
enclosed shopping centre in the
North Shore suburb of
Glenfield,
Auckland
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, New Zealand. It is situated between Glenfield Road to the west, Downing Street to the south and Bentley Avenue to the north.
The centre features major retailers including
Farmers
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,
The Warehouse
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,
Countdown
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, and
Briscoes Homeware. The Glenfield Night Market was formerly held in the car park on Sunday evenings.
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History
The mall opened in 1971 with a gross leasable area of . It was extended to in 1986. A food hall and fresh food stores were added in a 1991 refurbishment of the lower level.[ The mall was bought by ]Westfield Group
Westfield Group was an Australian shopping centre company that existed from 1960 to 2014, when it split into two independent companies: Scentre Group, which owns and operates the Australian and New Zealand Westfield shopping centre portfolio; ...
in May 1996[ and named Westfield Glenfield. A major renovation by Westfield in 2000 cost $100 million][
In a 2008 rating of New Zealand shopping centres by a retail expert group, Westfield Glenfield received just two out of four stars, the lowest rating in the country (though not the lowest that would have been possible), based on the criteria of amount of shopping area, economic performance, amenity and appeal as well as future growth prospects. The reviewers considered that the centre was facing strong competition, including from its newer and larger sister centre ]Westfield Albany
Westfield Albany is a shopping centre in the Auckland suburb of Albany, New Zealand, opposite the Albany Lakes Civic Park. It is majority owned (51%) by Scentre Group with the remainder owned by the Singapore Government's GIC. Until 2014 it w ...
. The centre's management disagreed and noted that the centre remained a convenient family-focused destination.
See also
* 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
Glenfield Mall
(official website)
Shopping centres in the Auckland Region
Shopping malls established in 1971
Glenfield
North Shore, New Zealand
1970s architecture in New Zealand
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