Westfield St Lukes

infobox shopping mall
shopping_mall_name = Westfield St Lukes

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location = Morningside, New Zealand
opening_date = 1971
owner= The Westfield Group
manager=
developer=
number_of_stores = 186 [ [http://www.westfield.com/stlukes/ourstores/ Our stores] (from the Westfield Group website. Accessed 2008-01-21.)]
number_of_anchors = 4
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website = [http://www.westfield.com/stlukes/ westfield.com/stlukes]
footnotes =

Westfield St Lukes is one of the big three shopping centres in the western suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand, and is located on St Lukes Road. It receives about 6 million shopper visits annually." [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=318&objectid=10440567&ref=emailfriend Justin Lynch - Low-flying master of the mall game] " - "The New Zealand Herald", Saturday 19 May 2007] With 43,000 m² gross floor area (2002 data), [" [http://www.bdcentral.co.nz/afa.asp?idWebPage=8338&idBobDeyProperty_Articles=1844&SID=958236 Councillors don't like "clutter" proposed for Westfield's Downtown & St Lukes sites] " - "The Bob Dey Property Report", Tuesday 19 November 2002. Retrieved 2007-08-15.] it features a Farmers, K mart, Foodtown, a Village SKYCITY 8 screen cinema complex and approximately 125 shops (2004 data). [ [http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealandInBrief/Economy/5/ENZ-Resources/Standard/3/en St Luke's shopping mall, Auckland] (from an image entry of the Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2007-08-15.)] Its main competition is LynnMall in New Lynn and Westfield WestCity in Henderson.

The centre opened in 1971 and is one of the oldest in New Zealand. About 100,000 people visited it on opening day. At the time it was considered a fresh style of shopping, but since then the closed-in nature of the centre (with little in terms of outside features save signage and doors) has come to be considered somewhat bland and outmoded. Partly to change this, Westfield has invested around NZ$55 million in the early 2000s to extend and renovate the centre. [" [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/author/story.cfm?a_id=29&ObjectID=3540400 Spend, spend, spend some time at the mall] " - "The New Zealand Herald", Saturday 20 December 2003]

In a 2008 rating of New Zealand shopping centres by a retail expert group, Westfield St Lukes received three-and-a-half stars, just under the maximum maximum rating of four stars, based on the criteria of amount of shopping area, economic performance, amenity and appeal as well as future growth prospects. [cite news|author=Gibson, Anne |title=How your shopping mall rates against the rest |publisher=The New Zealand Herald |date=2008-07-07|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10520245&pnum=0 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.westfield.com/stlukes Westfield St Lukes Homepage]