Centre Place

Shopping mall in Hamilton, New Zealand

37°47′9.91″S 175°16′48.78″E / 37.7860861°S 175.2802167°E / -37.7860861; 175.2802167AddressHamilton CentralOwnerKiwi Property^[1]No. of stores and services100Total retail floor area26,000 square metres (280,000 sq ft)No. of floors2Websitecentreplace.co.nz

Centre Place Shopping Centre is a shopping mall in Hamilton, New Zealand. It is located in the suburb of Hamilton Central. Centre Place is one of the city's three major malls along with Te Awa at The Base and Chartwell Shopping Centre.

A scheme for the former Hamilton Central station site was promoted in 1969,^[2] though the site was still an undeveloped car park in 1981.^[3] Development started in 1984 and Centreplace opened in 1985.^[4]^[5] In October 2013, an extension of Centre Place replaced the former Downtown Plaza. With the expansion, the centre has a total retail floor space of approximately 26,000 m² (280,000 sq ft), with an anchor tenant of Farmers (7,000 m² (75,000 sq ft)).^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

References

^ About us Archived June 24, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, centreplace.co.nz (ownership information) (Retrieved 9 June 2014)
^ "Press". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 24 May 1969. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
^ "Retrolens Survey SN5857, Run A, Photo 5". 3 February 1981.
^ New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender. Routledge. 4 January 2002. ISBN 978-1-134-73280-7.
^ "Centreplace Heart of the City". Hamilton Libraries Heritage Collection Online. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
^ Retail Leasing, centreplace.co.nz (square meter information), Retrieved 9 June 2014
^ Garnder, Chris (18 October 2013). Centre Place, the centre of attention, Waikato Times
^ Fox, Andrea & Christ Gardner (17 October 2013). Queues from 4am as Centre Place revamp opens, Waikato Times
^ Fox, Andrea (17 November 2011). $40m facelift for shopping plaza, Waikato Times