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Story: Department stores and shopping malls

Manukau City mall

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Manukau City mall

In the late 1970s, the Manukau City mall was built beside the civic administration block and other community services in the Manukau City centre. As in most malls, the shops face into the mall with no external windows. There is plenty of parking, a feature of all shopping malls.

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Helen Laurenson, Department stores and shopping malls – New Zealand’s main malls, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22234/manukau-city-mall (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Helen Laurenson, published 4 February 2010.