Westfield Innaloo

Westfield Innaloo
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LocationInnaloo, Western Australia, Australia
Coordinates31°54′05″S 115°47′57″E / 31.901475°S 115.799255°E / -31.901475; 115.799255 (Westfield Innaloo)
Opening date1967; 57 years ago (1967)
ManagementScentre Group
OwnerScentre Group
No. of stores and services171
No. of anchor tenants4
Total retail floor area47,030 m2 (506,200 sq ft)[1]
No. of floors1
Parking2,395
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Westfield Innaloo is a major shopping centre in the northern suburbs of Perth. It is located at the corner of Scarborough Beach Road and Ellen Stirling Boulevard (formerly Oswald Street) in Innaloo, approximately 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north-west of the Perth central business district. The shopping centre is approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi), or 3 minutes by bus, from Stirling Train Station, and is part of Stirling City Centre.[2]

History

The shopping centre, originally known as Innaloo Shoppers Village, was developed in 1967 to service Innaloo and newly developed Woodlands. 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 Target store, and a Coles Supermarkets (known as Coles New World at the time), were added to the centre in 1980.

The centre was acquired by Coles Myer in 1983. Nine years later, the centre's name was changed to Innaloo City Centre and a 375-seat food court and Kmart were added.[3]

In 1996, Westfield Group 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.[4][5] In July 2014 the Westfield Group became two companies (Scentre Group and Westfield Corporation), with ownership and management of the centre transferring to Scentre Group.[6] 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.[7]

In December 2019 Scentre Group announced it had deferred a redevelopment of Westfield Innaloo.[8] The $600 million work would have seen the complex doubling in size to 110,000 square metres (1,200,000 sq ft) of retail space, joining Westfield Carousel as Western Australia's biggest shopping centre.

In 2020 the shopping centre was intended to be rebranded to Westfield Stirling,[9][10][11] but as of 13 March 2022 that has not happened. Honouring James Stirling, after whom the City of Stirling is named in which Westfield Innaloo is situated and which is itself facing calls to rename,[12][13] is increasingly under pressure,[14] 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.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Westfield Group - Property Portfolio - Innaloo". Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Town Planning Scheme No. 38 - Landscape Guidelines" (PDF). City of Stirling. 2002. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2006. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  3. ^ Stirling Celebrates with Westfield Innaloo, Stirling Community (council publication), 23 August 2005, p. 1.
  4. ^ Strong Tenant Demand Despite Record New Supply In Perth Industrial Expected In 2005 - Australia, Williams J., Kennedy G., Randall K. (Jones Lang LaSalle), 2005 (accessed 27 July 2006).
  5. ^ 'Westfield has announced it is proceeding with a $50m', The West Australian, 2004, p. 54.
  6. ^ Condon, Turi (20 June 2014). "Westfield restructure a success: Lowy". The Australian Business Review. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  7. ^ "Lease With Us". Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  8. ^ Pond, Laura (12 December 2019). "Shops deferral delays Stirling City Centre vision". Stirling Times. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  9. ^ Ogg, Matt (6 December 2019). "Scentre Group shells out $570m to bolster Westfield presence in Perth". Business News Australia. Retrieved 13 March 2022. Westfield Stirling is a revamp of the company's centre in Innaloo, and on its webpage the company says it will be reopening in 2020.
  10. ^ "Australian Industry Participation (AIP) Plan Summary – Project Phase" (PDF). Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, Government of Australia. 21 May 2019. p. 1. Retrieved 13 March 2022. Scentre will undertake a redevelopment of the Westfield Innaloo shopping centre, including a renaming of the centre to Westfield Stirling.
  11. ^ "Scentre Group welcomes ALDI to its WA portfolio". Shopping Centre News. 24 June 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  12. ^ Carmody, James (8 June 2021). "City of Stirling keeps name of governor involved in WA massacre after push to change moniker". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  13. ^ Collard, Sarah (9 June 2021). "Disappointment as Stirling Council fails to change name". NITV News. Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 18 December 2021. The City is named after Western Australia's first governor Sir James Stirling, who instigated one of the state's bloodiest massacres almost 200 years ago.
  14. ^ Arnott, Georgina (8 June 2021). "WA's first governor James Stirling had links to slavery, as well as directing a massacre. Should he be honoured?". The Conversation. The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 19 December 2021. Stirling's direction of an 1834 massacre in Pinjarra, south of Perth, means we cannot honour him. Doing so dishonours those killed in that massacre, and its survivors, as well as their descendants.
  15. ^ Ryan, Lyndall; Pascoe, William; Debenham, Jennifer; Gilbert, Stephanie; Richards, Jonathan; Smith, Robyn; Owen, Chris; Anders, Robert J; Brown, Mark; Price, Daniel; Newley, Jack; Usher, Kaine (2017). "Pinjarra". Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia. University of Newcastle. Archived from the original on 8 March 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2019.