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Westfield Bondi Junction

Westfield Bondi Junction
Location	Bondi Junction, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	33°53′31″S 151°15′04″E / 33.892°S 151.251°E / -33.892; 151.251
Address	500 Oxford St, Bondi Junction NSW 2022
Opening date	1934; 90 years ago (1934) (Grace Bros.) 1970; 54 years ago (1970) (Carousel Centre) 1976; 48 years ago (1976) (Bondi Junction Plaza) August 2004; 20 years ago (August 2004) (Westfield Bondi Junction)
Management	Scentre Group
Owner	Scentre Group
No. of stores and services	331
No. of anchor tenants	8
Total retail floor area	{{convert|131,259|m2|abbr=on}
No. of floors	7
Parking	3,304 spaces
Public transit access	Bondi Junction railway station
Website	westfield.com.au/bondijunction/

Westfield Bondi Junction is a large, upmarket shopping centre in the suburb of Bondi Junction in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.

Transport

The Eastern Suburbs Line offer frequent services to Bondi Junction station which is a short walk from the centre.

Eastgate Bondi Junction has bus connections to the Sydney CBD, Eastern Suburbs, Inner City, Inner West and St George, as well as local surrounding suburbs. It is served by State Transit. The majority of its bus services are located at the Bondi Junction station bus interchange as well as on Oxford Street outside the centre.

Westfield Bondi Junction has multi level car parks with 3,304 spaces.

History

Westfield Bondi Junction is built on land that was originally occupied by three separate retail establishments. The oldest of these was a Grace Bros. store (now Myer), opened in 1933 and continued to be occupied until the redevelopment. The land was also occupied by the Carousel Centre which had opened in the 1970s and Bondi Junction Plaza in 1976. In 1994 Westfield bought a controlling stake in Bondi Junction Plaza from AMP and renamed it Westfield Bondi Junction Plaza. In 2000, Westfield purchased the Carousel Centre and the remaining stake in Bondi Junction Plaza.

The redevelopment took six years for approval to be gained due to the site being located on the border of Waverley and Woollahra local government areas. In 1997 the Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning, Craig Knowles, approved the initial concept for a redeveloped shopping centre. Following the purchase of the Carousel Centre in 2000, a new expanded scheme was submitted for approval. In 2001 the New South Wales Minister for Planning, Frank Sartor approved the development despite the two councils' objections. The scale of the development was the main reason for the delayed approval process. This included four levels of parking and two levels of shops underground reaching 25 metres below as well as three levels of shops and four levels of parking above ground. In addition a 70-metre tunnel and a 12-metre wide double storey pedestrian bridge above ground. The redevelopment incorporates 458 retailers and was completed in August 2004. As of July 2014, this shopping centre is now under Scentre Group management.

Westfield Bondi Junction has been blamed for the downturn in trade in surrounding shopping hubs. The nearby Oxford Street, in Paddington is one example. Retail trade in that location dropped 30% in the four months after the opening of the shopping centre with other locations in Double Bay and Woollahra experiencing similar downturn in trade.

In August 2016, Swedish retailer H&M opened its store at the centre. The store opened on the former terrace food court.

Tenants

Westfield Bondi Junction has 131,259m² of floor space. The major retailers include David Jones, Myer, Target, Coles, Harris Farm Markets, Woolworths, H&M, Uniqlo, Zara, Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Rebel Sport, Freak VR and Event Cinemas

References

1. "Westfield Bondi Junction". Scentre Group. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
2. "infolink.com.au". Westfield building landmark Bondi Junction. Retrieved 22 November 2006.
3. "westfield.com". Westfield Bondi Junction - Our Stores. Archived from the original on 10 September 2006. Retrieved 5 January 2007.
4. Somasundaram, Narayanan (20 June 2014). "Westfield Retail Shareholders Vote in Favor of Restructure". Bloomberg News.
5. "Store wars". The Sydney Morning Herald. 30 April 2005. Retrieved 22 November 2006.
6. H&M confirms Bondi and Broadway launches
7. "H&M confirms Bondi and Broadway launches - Inside Retail". Inside Retail. 28 July 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2017.

External links

• Westfield Bondi Junction

• Shopping centres in Sydney
• Shopping malls established in 2003
• Bondi Junction, New South Wales
• 2003 establishments in Australia
• Westfield Group