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Botany Town Centre

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Botany Town Centre

Auckland’s Botany Town Centre looks like a return to old-fashioned ‘high street’ shopping – but its tree-lined streets, gardens and squares are all privately owned, because it is actually a large shopping complex.

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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/22235/botany-town-centre (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Helen Laurenson, published 4 February 2010.