Founded in 1985 by the late John Saunders AO, co-founder of Westfield, Terrace Tower Group is a family run real estate and investment company. With 12 shops, 2 department stores and a supermarket, people flocked to see the plaza which newspapers of the day described as 'the most modern American-type combined retail centre'. Long gone were the suburb’s retail pillars Diments and Jolley’s, and dying a slow death was Barter’s. Australia offered them opportunities, hope, a new start. The company’s name was changed to the Westfield Group. There’s something oddly creepy about that. The name Westfield is derived from "west" related to the West Sydney location, and "field" due to having located on subdivided farmland. Would Council submit to this corporate shaming at the cost of their pride?

Some investors have questioned whether development deals were not a touch too favourable for Westfield Holdings, where the Lowys had their big stake.
Roselands had remained beyond their grasp, however, and the group was looking to fill the shopping void in the southwest.In November 1975, Westfield put forward a proposal to Hurstville Council: a shopping complex that would contain a department store, a large supermarket and various small shops, spread out over three floors. If you haven’t liked it yet, go and do it! The first development was named “Westfield Place”, and opened in July 1959 in Blacktown. Soon their delicatessen was joined by a continental coffee lounge as the area’s efficient railway network delivered a steady influx of customers.But Saunders had been keeping an eye on American developments in the small business arena. The newest trend there was a strip mall with a roof.

Now Westfield has 123 centres in Australasia, Britain and the US and a massive corporate restructure has been mooted that will turn two trusts and a holding company into a single $34 billion international behemoth, Westfield Group.All that has made Frank a heck of a lot richer than he imagined he would ever be back in 1954 when he carried a box of sausages into John Saunders's milk bar. Back in 1998, the family stake was cut from 43 per cent to 30 per cent when the Lowys decided to take about $500 million of their equity out of the company to establish a private nest egg. This breezy artist’s conception makes it look like a kind of leafy paradise, but it’s harder to imagine in practice. The average employee at Westfield Group makes $60,439 per year. Westfield Group has great employee retention with staff members usually staying with the company for 3.7 years. He arrived here in 1952 and, soon after, his diligence and businesslike approach to supplying smallgoods impressed another former refugee, John Saunders, who at that time owned a milk bar.The two went into retailing together then decided there was a better quid in developing stores. In July 1959 John Saunders and Frank Lowy opened their first shopping centre - Westfield Plaza in Blacktown. Nonetheless, returns throughout the group were good enough to overshadow such doubts in the minds of investors.Westfield has been on an extraordinary upward trajectory in the past six years, gaining a major position in the US retail mall market and a toehold in Britain. Let’s take a look at a few choice pages from the December 1983 catalogue, shall we?I’ll put more up on the Past/Lives Facebook page. That structure has been controversial for a long time. One of the founding fathers of the National Soccer League in the mid-1970s (the first genuinely national football league in the country), the Westfield boss walked away from the game in the early 1980s, disillusioned with the ethnic domination of the code.But he has returned and promised a quiet, well thought out revolution. Backing winners as always, guys. Westfield entered the New Zealand market in 1997 and acquired an interest in the St. Lukes Group portfolio in 1998.


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