Stockland Wetherill Park
 Outdoor plaza | |
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| Location | Wetherill Park and Prairiewood |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 33°51′32″S 150°53′56″E / 33.8588°S 150.8988°E |
| Opening date | 1983 |
| Developer | Stockland |
| No. of stores and services | 200+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 71,356 m2 (768,070 sq ft) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Parking | 2,637 |
| Public transit access |  Prairiewood |
| Website | Stockland Wetherill Park |
Stockland Wetherill Park (known as “Stockies” to locals) is a shopping mall in Wetherill Park, Sydney, Australia. Being an indoor and outdoor shopping centre, it is 47th-largest by area in the country.[1] Costing $142 million to build, the centre was established in 1983 and has been through four phases of redevelopment, with the major one completed in September 2016, where it had undergone a $228 million renovation with some 5,600 m2 (60,000 sq ft) of retail space.[2]
Features
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The shopping centre features Coles, Woolworths, Big W, Kmart, JB Hi-Fi, Angus & Coote and 200 specialty stores, including over 20 fashion stores. It also features a refurbished, twelve-screen Hoyts cinema with leather seating and recliners, a 24-hour gym and alfresco dining with floor-to-ceiling windows. The centre features "The Grove", which contains an 800-seat indoor-outdoor food terrace with 14 restaurants, cafes and food operators, with those outside being in a lane-way setting. Cuisines in the eateries include Thai, Mexican, Vietnamese and Italian, among others.[3]
The centre has also opened an extra 910 car parking spaces in 2016, bringing the total to close to 2700 spaces, which is a 30% increase on the number of spaces available before the redevelopment. The mall's height is roughly around 15 metres. Furthermore, the shopping centre also includes a children's playground, which is on the outdoor section of the mall.[4]
Chris Bowen MP, Member for McMahon, Shadow Treasurer, Dr Hugh McDermott MP, Member for Prospect and Mayor of Fairfield City Council, Frank Carbone attended the official re-opening and toured the centre. Since opening stage 1 in 2015, Stockland Wetherill Park has received more than 5 million people through the new subdivisions of the mall.[5]
Access
[edit]The Liverpool-Parramatta Rapid Bus Transitway has a station at the complex, and there are a number of bus stops belonging to Transit Systems Sydney that operate nearby. A taxi zone is located on Polding Street which are both within the realm of the shopping mall.
See also
[edit]- Fairfield Showground, nearby marketplace
References
[edit]- ^ Stockland to redevelop Wetherill Park mall, Carolyn Cummins by the Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Stockland Wetherill Park
- ^ Stockland announces $222m expansion of Wetherill Park Shopping Centre, The Urban Developer
- ^ Stockland Wetherill Park grand opening, Fairfield Champion
- ^ Stockland Wetherill Park Redevelopment Opens, Monique Jones, Media Relations Consultant