Westfield Albany

Westfield Albany
Looking at the centre from the northwest
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LocationAlbany, Auckland, New Zealand
Address219 Don McKinnon Drive
Opening date2007; 17 years ago (2007)
DeveloperWestfield Group
OwnerScentre Group (51%)
GIC (49%)
No. of stores and services~ 145[1]
No. of anchor tenants4 (including cinemas)
Total retail floor area53, 329 m² (retail)
No. of floors2
Parking~2373+ spaces
Websitewww.westfield.co.nz/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 was wholly owned by Scentre Group, which was formerly part of Westfield Group.[2]

Once the last sections opened in April 2008, at 7 ha (70,000 m2) of indoor space (4.9 ha retail [49,000 m2] and 2.1 ha [21,000 m2] offices), and costing around NZ$210 million to construct.[1][3]

Westfield Albany provides over 2,000 carparks for around 150 specialty stores, as well as a large-format 2 floor 10,000 m2 Farmers, a Kmart and a New World. It also contains an Event Cinemas multiplex cinema and a 560-seat food court which includes major fastfood franchises.[1][4][5]

  1. ^ a b c Gibson, Anne (15 August 2007). "Westfield set to show off NZ's biggest mall". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
  2. ^ Kloten, Niko; Harris, Catherine (7 November 2014). "Singapore fund buys into NZ Westfield shopping centres". Stuff. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference MAKE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Westfield Agreements Mark Milestone In Development of Albany Town Centre (from the Westfield NZ website, 28 September 2006)
  5. ^ Gibson, Anne (7 April 2007). "Options for Downtown mall wide open". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 3 December 2011.