WESTFIELD SHOPPING CENTRE BLACKTOWN was the company's very first "shopping precinct." It opened, in the northern environs of Sydney, in July 1959.
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Frank Lowy ["Low" rhymes with "now"] immigrated from Czechoslovakia to the "Land Down Under" in 1952. He went on to form what was the world's largest retail real estate empire. Mr. Lowy stepped down from his Executive Chairperson position at Westfield in May 2011 and assumed the role of Non-Executive Chairman. He retired altogether in October 2015.

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After the merger with Unibail-Rodamco, Westfield went on a mall-selling binge. By 2025, only fifteen properties remained in the Westfield United States porfolio.

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WESTFIELD IN AMERICA

Scroll along as we explore the first Westfield-owned shopping mall in the United States...