Southlands Boulevarde

It’s nice to have a shopping centre reasonably close by (to Canning Vale) that isn’t the same old Westfield or Stockland, but actually has a different variety of options.
With both a Coles and a massive Woolworths as well as smaller speciality food stores, there’s a great range of food as well as a few different cafes (though the ones in the mall are not much to write home about, there is a much better variety of restaurants outside), and quite a variety of shops, though no department stores. The Best & Less has a great variety of children’s clothes, and there are a number of different clothing outlets for adults.
The cinema and DarkZone are great entertainment options, though the food hall is pathetic. I was very disappointed when the Dome closed and was replaced with a Steak House (that has had bad reviews), and the only other option left in the food hall is a Japanese one, which fortunately is good (which is why it has remained when everything else has closed down).

Southlands is your typical shopping mall, but a rather impressive one considering the location. Us south of the river people tend to get a bit jipped in terms of cool places to shop, but the newly re-​vamped Southlands delivers.
Personally, I think it’s heaps better than Carousel a couple of suburbs over. The lay-​out is better, and it’s been kept nicer, too. Carousel was re-​vamped YEARS ago, but whoever’s in charge has just let it slip… Even the large meant-​to-​be-​drawing-​people-​in banners outside the mall are faded, and that alone kind of screams ‘yeah, we did this place up, but we can’t be stuffed maintaining the standard’. I get no such feeling in Southlands.
It has everything you could need, from grocery stores to a movie theatre. So south of the river people, definitely give Southlands a try.

Way back in the late 1980’s I attended high school right over the road from Southlands. Back in those days it was a tired, unremarkable shopping centre where the locals could stock their pantries and fridges, but with absolutely no draw beyond the convenience of location. It was held back from expansion through disagreements with residents of a single street and seemed locked in permanent stagnation.
Somewhere in the interim, whatever was holding things back seems to have been resolved and Southlands has blossomed into a suburban shopping node second to very few in the area.
Boasting clean, comprehensive Woolworths and Coles locations, as well as appealing options for bread, fresh produce, meats, and the rest, Southlands offers a galaxy of options for your grocery needs. There’s also a wide array of speciality shops dotting the expanded mall — everything ranging from the usual clothing chains to a specialised vacuum cleaner merchant.
Where the present-​day Southlands really shines is in the addition of reasons to be there beyond the mundane ritual of restocking on the essentials. The centre boosts and expansive food-​court, tucked away upstairs near the even more welcome Hoyts cinema complex. For some reason, Southlands doesn’t seem to pull in the kids teh same way as Carousel or Garden City, so this is always my preferred place to take in a new movie.
Dotted along the Burrendah Boulevard boundary of the car park are a number of eating establishments. A Chicken Treat that’s been there forever (this location was, long ago, a «Big Rooster»), a Chinese place, fish and chips, Pizza Hut, Subway, Nando’s and many of the usual suspects. Unfortunately, the location most likely can’t support anything more up-​market, but you won’t go hungry here, that’s for sure.
While Southlands isn’t quite challenging the big boys like Carousel and Garden City, it’s easily the most comprehensive of the lower-​tier shopping centres in the area.

Southlands Boulevarde is a great shopping centre to visit if you want a bit of variety in your day.
I have found shops here which I cannot find in other nearby shopping centres. Plus the fact that the cinema, DarkZone and the food court are upstairs, makes the shopping centre keep the noisier, busier activities away from the shops.
You will find Coles and Woolworths inside. They do not have a department store though.
It is great to be able to watch a movie and then pop downstairs to grab a few groceries.
There are some ATMs on-​site, but no banks.