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Sylvia Park shopping centre

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Sylvia Park shopping centre
When the first stage of the Sylvia Park shopping complex at Mt Wellington opened in 2006 there was gridlock on the Southern Motorway. Hundreds of Aucklanders flocked to the Warehouse on the opening day (seen here queuing at the tills). On such occasions thousands of economic transactions take place. The national accounts attempt to measure all these transactions over a given period of time, usually a year.

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Jeff Cope, National income and GDP – National accounts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23573/sylvia-park-shopping-centre (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jeff Cope, published 26 February 2010.