Southmall Manurewa is a

shopping centre A shopping center in American English, shopping centre in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, spelling differences), shopping complex, shopping arcade, ...

located in

Manurewa Manurewa is a suburb in South Auckland, New Zealand, located south of Manukau, Manukau Central, and southeast of the Auckland City Centre. It is home to the Auckland Botanic Gardens, which receives over a million visitors a year. Manurewa h ...

, a suburb of

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, New Zealand, located south of the

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History and development

Plans for an American-style shopping centre in Manurewa began in the early 1960s. Manurewa was chosen due to its increasing population, and its proximity to the industrial areas in

Wiri Wiri is a mostly industrial-commercial focused suburb in Auckland, New Zealand. It was formerly part of Manukau City until the merger of all of Auckland's councils into the ' super city' in 2010. The area was named after the chief Takaanini W ...

. The centre was opened in November 1967 and developed by London based Hammerson Property & Investment Trust, who had developed the first mall in Auckland,

LynnMall LynnMall is a shopping centre in New Lynn, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in 1963, it was New Zealand's first shopping mall. History British investment company Hammerson promoted the idea of developing a modern American-style shopp ...

. The major tenants of the mall at opening were

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, who took up a fifth of the retail space, and Woolworths supermarket. It was Auckland's third major mall after LynnMall and the Pakuranga Town Centre. During 1987, the centre was extensively remodeled and was redesigned from an open air to an enclosed centre. In 2016, Southmall Manurewa was nominated as one of the 'saddest' malls in New Zealand, citing a lack of development, an "uninviting and dangerous" vibe and Westfield Manukau City in the nearby vicinity attracting more appeal from shoppers.

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History and development

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