Talk:Westfield Booragoon

Floor Count

In the context of the Shopping Mall infobox, the number of floors is defined as floors which operate retail tenancies - as in it's a floor that has retail space available for the purpose of general trading. This centre has all it's retail tenancies on a single floor. While some may argue that the upper deck and underground car parks, or the adjoining office block may count as a level, they do not. If you were to argue that the lower ground car park could count for the number of floors given that a car detailing business operates there - this is also incorrect. It's a service, and not considered a general trading included in the total retail floor area calculation for the centre. This article is on watch, so any further silly changes will be reverted on sight. thewinchester 14:13, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

You may be forgetting that Myer trades over 3 floors, whilst DJ's trades over 2, so, technically, there are 3 floors according to your defintion of "floors in a centre". Tuddy 22:31 18 July 2007

History

Too far down to point out it was the end of the primacy of the CBD in metropolitan Perth - it was the first, and the start of the drawing away services and businesses from the CBD htat continues today SatuSuro 08:07, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Backlash against redevelopment

There was quite a lot of controvery in the community over the major expansion of Garden City in 1999/2000 which has been ignored in this article: firstly the removal of taxi ranks at the eastern entrance of the centre, and the loss of the petrol stations - there were two on this site before this development: Shell was demolished as part of the development, and the BP service station later as already mentioned in the article

More importantly, the demolition of the Booragoon Hotel has been completely ignored. This was situated at the corner of Riseley and Marmion St - more or less where the Bus station is now situated. The loss of this social hub has certainly impacted on the local community. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.170.129.39 (talk) 11:41, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Redevelopment section

The redevelopment section of this article is completely unsourced, and to my knowledge the material about the twentieth century history of Garden City is inaccurate in a number of important respects.

The original centre, opened in 1972, was anchored from the beginning by the two department stores now occupied by Myer (north, originally a David Jones store) and David Jones (south, originally a Boans store). A mall of specialty shops connected the two department stores and did not have a glass atrium. The centre of the complex was where the Dome cafe is now, and just to the west of what is now the newsagency was a supermarket, occupied by Coles New World.

In 1978, David Jones closed down all of its WA stores, Boans moved to the vacant north store, and Aherns replaced Boans in the south store. Boans and Aherns were later taken over by Myer and David Jones, respectively, hence the present names of the two department stores.

In 1983-84, the Coles supermarket was demolished and replaced by a western mall extending much further west, through to the Davy Street entrance where the post office is now. Coles moved into the supermarket now occupied by Woolworths, and occupied that supermarket until moving again at about the turn of the century to its present location.

The major retailers are not the only tenants to have moved around over the years. I think the only tenants still in their original locations are Betts and Mazzuchellis, although I wouldn't swear to that - even they may have moved early in the centre's history. Bahnfrend (talk) 16:01, 8 March 2018 (UTC)