LynnMall

{{Short description|Shopping mall in Auckland, New Zealand}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}} {{Infobox shopping mall | name = LynnMall | image = Lynn Mall 20220425 134440.jpg | caption = Aerial view of LynnMall in 2022 | image_width = 280 | location = New Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand | coordinates = {{coord|-36.9077|174.6851|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | opening_date = {{Start date and age|1963|10|30|df=yes}} | developer = Hammerson & Investment Trust of London | manager = Kiwi Property Group | owner = Kiwi Property acquired LynnMall in December 2010 | architect = Walker, Lewis and Hillary & Co | number_of_stores = 121 | number_of_anchors = 3 – Farmers, Woolworths and Reading Cinemas | floor_area = {{Convert|31853|m2|ft2|abbr=on}} | floors = 2 | parking = 1216 car parks | website = {{URL|lynnmall.co.nz}} }}

'''LynnMall''' is a shopping centre in New Lynn, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in October 1963, it was New Zealand's first shopping mall.

==History== thumb|left|Shoppers at the newly opened LynnMall in 1963

British investment company Hammerson promoted the idea of developing a modern American-style shopping mall in suburban Auckland, choosing New Lynn as the site for this venture in the early 1960s due to the growth potential of the New Lynn area.<ref name="McLachlan">{{cite book |last1=McLachlan |first1=Bruce |last2=Slade |first2=Michelle|title=The History of New Lynn |date=1981|pages=49–50}}</ref> The land was purchased from Bob McGrae of the Auckland Bus Company, and the mall was planned by architectural firm Livingstone Jones Lang Wootton.<ref name="McLachlan"/> During planning stages, Auckland resident voiced concerns that the establishment of a large mall would take business away from suburban shopping streets in Avondale, New Lynn, and other areas of West Auckland.<ref name="McLachlan"/> Warringah Mall in Sydney, a sister mall of LynnMall also developed by Hammerson, opened in April 1963.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mbc-group.com.au/project/warringah-mall-shopping-centre/|title=Warringah Mall Shopping Centre|publisher=MBC Group|access-date=5 May 2024}}</ref><ref name="McLachlan"/>

Construction of the mall was undertaken by Cubitt Wells, taking approximately nine months at a cost of $1,000,000.<ref name="McLachlan"/> LynnMall officially opened as New Zealand's first American-style suburban shopping centre on 30 October 1963,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/9294196/Fifty-years-of-the-shopping-mall|accessdate=24 July 2016|title=Fifty years of the shopping mall|date=20 October 2013|publisher=Stuff}}</ref><ref name="WhauNow">{{cite book |last1=Dickey |first1=Hugh |title=Whau Now, Whau Then |publisher=Blockhouse Bay Historical Society |date=2020 |isbn=978-0-473-54013-5 |pages=11}}</ref> The construction of LynnMall led to further shopping centres developed by Hammerson and Livingstone Jones Lang Wootton across the country, including the Riccarton Mall in Christchurch in 1965 and Southmall Manurewa in 1967.<ref>{{cite news|via=Papers Past|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19821117.2.92 |title=Mall development in New Zealand |newspaper=Press |date=17 November 1982 |page=21}}</ref> LynnMall also inspired the Henderson Borough Council to create a competing mall, Henderson Square (now known as WestCity Waitakere), which opened in 1968.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moon |first1=Paul |author-link1=Paul Moon |chapter=Taking Care of Business |editor-last1=Macdonald |editor-first1=Finlay |editor-link1=Finlay Macdonald (editor) |editor-last2=Kerr |editor-first2=Ruth |title=West: The History of Waitakere |publisher=Random House |date=2009 |isbn=9781869790080|page=136}}</ref><ref>{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103025320/http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/AbtCit/cp/pdf/hdsnhistory.pdf|title=A brief history of Henderson|date=3 January 2007|first=Raewynn |last=Robertson|publisher=Waitakere City Council}}</ref>

The mall was extended in 1970,<ref name="WhauNow"/> extending floor space from {{convert|90,000|ft2}} to {{convert|150,000|ft2}},<ref name="McLachlan"/> making it the largest indoor shopping centre in New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref>{{cite news|via=Papers Past|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19880719.2.128 |title=West Auckland sets sights on tourism |newspaper=Press |date=19 July 1988 |page=27}}</ref> The mall saw further upgrades in 1999.<ref name="WhauNow"/>

In January 2015, LynnMall commenced a $36 million expansion, named ''Brickworks'', which included a new cinema, dining precinct and additional stores.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11383778 |title=Multiplex cinema, more shops and dining precinct to give shopping centre big facelift |publisher=The New Zealand Herald |date=9 January 2015 |accessdate=15 May 2016}}</ref> In November that year, Brickworks officially opened to the public.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/73704651/Social-hot-spot-Brickworks-opens-in-New-Lynn-Auckland |title=Social hot spot Brickworks opens in New Lynn, Auckland |publisher=Stuff |date=6 November 2015 |accessdate=15 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Skelton |first1=Carolyn |title=A Brief History of New Lynn: A West Auckland suburb |publisher=Auckland Libraries West Auckland Research Centre, Whau Local Board |date=2016 |pages=65}}</ref> Together with the existing Farmers department store and Countdown supermarket, the centre provides a shopping destination in the developing town centre of New Lynn.

Seven people were injured in a stabbing attack on 3 September 2021 at the mall, one of whom narrowly missed the knife but was still affected. The attacker Ahamed Samsudeen was shot and killed by police.<ref>{{Cite web|date=3 September 2021|title=Man shot dead at Countdown supermarket in Auckland|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/450699/man-shot-dead-at-countdown-supermarket-in-auckland|access-date=3 September 2021|website=Radio New Zealand|language=en-nz}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.kiwiproperty.com/lynnmall/ LynnMall website] *[https://www.kiwiproperty.com/lynnmall/the-brickworks/ The Brickworks – LynnMall]

Category:Shopping centres in the Auckland Region Category:Shopping malls established in 1963 Category:Whau Local Board Area Category:1960s architecture in New Zealand Category:West Auckland, New Zealand