Botany Town Centre

Botany Town Centre is one of the largest outdoor shopping complexes in the southern hemisphere. Located in the Howick Ward of the new Auckland Council,  it has approximately 200 shops spread across three complexes and restaurants, as well as entertainment buildings such as cinemas.

It is surrounded by upper-class suburbia. It has an array of shops on either side of it.

Botany Town Centre sees the ‘town centre’ Format as its strength, and considers that elements like providing medical facilities and a library in the shopping area makes Botany most  attractive.

In a 2008 rating of New Zealand shopping centres by a retail expert group, Botany Town Centre received three-and-a-half stars, just under the maximum rating of four stars, based on the criteria of amount of shopping area, economic performance, amenity and appeal as well as future growth prospects.