It is situated between Glenfield Road to the west, Downing Street to the south and Bentley Avenue to the north.

[1] The centre features major retailers including Farmers, The Warehouse, Countdown, and Briscoes Homeware.

[2] The Glenfield Night Market was formerly held in the car park on Sunday evenings.

[1] In a 2008 rating of New Zealand shopping centres by a retail expert group, Westfield Glenfield received just two out of four stars, the lowest rating in the country (though not the lowest that would have been possible), based on the criteria of amount of shopping area, economic performance, amenity and appeal as well as future growth prospects.

[5] On 30 November 2015, Scentre Group, the owner and manager of Westfield Shopping Centres, sold the mall to Ladstone Glenfield Limited, a subsidiary of Ladstone Holdings Limited.