History
The shopping centre, originally known as Innaloo Shoppers Village, was developed in 1967 to service Innaloo and newly-developed Woodlands. It was the second shopping centre built north of the Swan River and opened with about 30 stores plus a Boans (later Aherns) department store and Woolworths supermarket. A Target store, and a Coles Supermarkets (Then known as Coles New World), were added to the centre in 1980.
The centre was acquired by Coles Myer in 1983. Nine years later, the centre's name was changed to Innaloo City Centre and a 375-seat food court and Kmart were added.
In 1996, Westfield Group acquired the centre and changed its name to Westfield Innaloo. In 2004-05, the centre grew in size by over 25% as more than 30 specialty stores were added and the Coles supermarket was relocated. Currently Westfield Innaloo has over 120 specialty stores.
A new entrance was also built which compares interestingly with the previously erected signage nearby.
Westfield also acquired the adjacent Centro Innaloo and renamed it Innaloo Megacentre.
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