Stride Property took over ownership of Chartwell Shopping Centre in 2015, as a result of this, Chartwell Shopping Centre is no longer part of the Westfield Group and Westfield gift cards are not accepted.

The shopping centre is informally referred to as Chartwell Square by many Hamilton residents, as this was its original name.

This saw the opening of an Event Cinema complex,[3] a new food court with 450 seats, multi-storey car parking for 270 vehicles, and many new stores in place.

In January 2010 Westfield Chartwell committed NZ$33million towards another upgrade, which was completed in October of the same year.

[5] In November 2015, Stride Property announced they would be purchasing the Chartwell Shopping Centre from Scentre Group.