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Westfield's history tracks the rise of the Australian shopping centre and shows what's to come

  • Written by Louise Grimmer, Lecturer in Marketing, University of Tasmania
imageWestfield Burwood circa 1999, a year before being demolished to make way for a new Westfield building.Wikimedia Commons (unknown author), CC BY-SA

The sale of Westfield to the French property firm Unibail-Rodamco draws to a close (with a A$32 billion reward) one of Australia’s greatest business success stories. But it also shows where...

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