In 1933, Grace Bros opened their first Sydney suburban department store on a site on the corner of Church and Argyle Streets.

[2] This block, bounded by Aird and Marsden Streets, was predominantly occupied by retail properties and expanded the Parramatta town centre south of the Main Western railway line.

In the same year the redeveloped Grace Bros featured a food hall, supermarket and a hardware on the ground floor.

Stage three opened towards the end of 1975 and featured the four screen Village Cinemas complex, Westower Tavern and 14 speciality stores.

In 1989 a proposal to build an underground pedestrian underpass to link the centre with the railway station to ease the passage of commuters to the stores was submitted and subsequently approved.

This redevelopment included a city block east of the existing centre on the corner of Church Street and Argyle Street was developed as a multi-storey cinema and lifestyle complex, connected to the main centre by a pedestrian air bridge at level 4 and an underground retail arcade at level 1.

A feature of the redeveloped food-court are the electronic passenger destination indicator boards for services out of Parramatta railway station.

The existing centre saw minor redevelopment of retail areas adjacent to the new pedestrian air bridge as well as an upgraded facade.

The major retailers include Aldi, Best & Less, Club Lime, Coles, Cotton On Body, Cotton On Kids, Daiso, David Jones, Dymocks, Event Cinemas, H&M, JB Hi-Fi, JD Sports, Kmart, Myer, Rebel, Target, Timezone, Uniqlo, Woolworths, Woolworths Metro and Zara.

The North Shore & Western, Leppington & Inner West and Cumberland Line offer frequent services to Westfield Parramatta.