Casuarina Square
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| Opening date | 1973 |
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| Developer | General Property Trust |
| No. of stores and services | 200 [1] |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| Parking | 2,400 |
| Website | casuarina.com/casuarina |
Casuarina Square is a major and is the largest shopping centre in the Northern Territory fourteen kilometres in Darwin's northern suburb of Casuarina. The shopping centre is built to the building code for Tropical Cyclones, due to cyclones that sweep through the area such as Cyclone Tracy in 1974.
Casuarina Square was built in 1973, the shopping centre contains over 180 businesses including two supermarkets (Coles and Woolworths), and the discount department - stores (Big W and Kmart), and a 7-screen Birch Carroll and Coyle cinema.
Other major stores in the shopping centre include Best and Less, JB Hi-Fi, and a total of over 200 specialty shops.
The General Property Trust owns and Land Lease manages the shopping centre and since its purchase of the centre, it has gona under four major redevelopments. The recent was a three stage redevelopment was completed in December 1998 adding 63 specialty stores and the 7-screen Birch Carroll and Coyle cinema.[2] Since then the average number of visits per week is greater than twice the population of Darwin.[3]
Transport
Casuarina Square is accessible from Trower Road and by the bus routes of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 21.[4]
The shopping centre is located 14km north of Darwin which is 15 minutes from the Darwin city centre and 20 minutes from Palmerston.
The shopping centre has over 2,400 parking spaces including undercover parking. Access to the car parks is from Trower Road, Dripstone Road and Bradshaw Terrace.