Westfield Marion

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Westfield Marion
Westfield Marion viewed from Bedford Park.

Location	Oaklands Park, South Australia, Australia
Opening date	1968
Management	John O'Loughlin
Owner	Australian Prime Property Funds & The Westfield Group
No. of stores and services	321
Total retail floor area	130,624 m² (lettable)
Parking	5,509
No. of floors	3
Website	westfield.com/marion/

Westfield Marion is the largest shopping complex in Adelaide, South Australia. Although it is known as "Westfield Marion", the centre, its management and all tenant addresses are located in Oaklands Park. ^[1]

The centre contains two supermarkets (Coles and Woolworths), several department and discount stores (Myer, David Jones, Kmart, BIG W, Target & Harris Scarfe), a 27-cinema Greater Union 'Megaplex' complex (including four large 'Senstadium' screens and a Gold Class area), a bowling alley, Bunnings Warehouse and over 300 specialty stores.

The centre also houses offices for Westfield Management and also for doctors, lawyers and government agencies. Marion is located on a large allotment of land with frontages to Sturt, Oaklands and Morphett Rds. Over 30,000 people shop at Marion each day. It is located within the City of Marion and is the the major shopping destination for the surrounding region. Some 350,000 people live in the vicinity of Westfield Marion.

Westfield Marion was built in 1968, and has seen three extensions in 1982, 1989 and 1997. The last extension saw the centre expand to a floorspace of roughly 119,000 m².

[edit] Transport

The Marion Interchange is a bus interchange with connections to city-centre, Flinders University, Hallett Cove and Port Adelaide. It is also in proximity to the Oaklands railway station on the Noarlunga Line, which is being redeveloped by the South Australian government into a transport interchange. ^[2]