Bayfair Shopping Centre, more commonly known as simply Bayfair, is one of the main shopping malls in

Tauranga Tauranga (, Māori language for "resting place," or "safe anchorage") is a coastal city in the Bay of Plenty Region and the List of cities in New Zealand, fifth-most populous city of New Zealand, with an urban population of or roughly 3% of t ...

located in the suburb of Arataki. Bayfair is also known for being the first shopping mall built in Tauranga. Bayfair is owned by Fisher Funds Management, and is managed by

Dexus Dexus is an Australasian real assets manager and owner. Founded in 1984, it is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. History Dexus was listed by Deutsche Bank on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1984 as the Deutsche Diversified Tru ...

Location

Bayfair Shopping Centre is located on the corner of Maunganui Road ( State Highway 2) and Girven Road. The rear of the shopping centre backs onto Farm Road, and Jackson Street and Harris Street are located to the side of the building. It is across Maunganui Road from Omanu Golf Course, and across Girven Road from Baywave (a major aquatic complex).

Facilities

Bayfair has three anchor stores: Woolworths,

Kmart Kmart ( ), formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is a department-store chain and online retailer in the United States and Territories of the United States, its territories. It operates four remaining Kma ...

and

Farmers A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer mi ...

. Up until 2018, it was home to New Zealand’s only remaining Woolworths supermarket, which had retained the Australian Woolworths branding rather than rebranding to Countdown (like all other Foodtown and Woolworths stores) due to the presence of an existing Countdown store in Bayfair. In 2023, following a nationwide rebrand by the company, the store was officially renamed Woolworths once again. Farmers is the only part of the shopping centre (other than the carpark) to be on more than one floor. There is a large foodcourt with around a dozen food retailers.

Development

In December 2017, a $115 million redevelopment began on Bayfair. Included in the development was a new cinema with 1,300 seats, and a new Woolworths supermarket. Over 400 workers worked on the construction. The first stage of the redevelopment opened in December 2018. There were 30 new stores. The redevelopment was expected to end in 2019, which was expected to have 150 stores once finished. In May 2019, six new restaurants opened at Bayfair.

Buses

Buses stop outside bayfair on Farm Street

References

External links