Most shops at a tornado-damaged shopping mall on Auckland's North Shore were open for business today.
Parts of the Westfield Shopping Centre have been shut since the tornado struck on Tuesday.
Ninety percent of shops were now open for business, the centre's website said today.
Today, the mall's lower level re-opened, apart from Farmers, and a small number of stores on the upper level.
The fatal tornado caused ten of millions of dollars of damage in Auckland on Tuesday.
Benedict Dacayan, 37, of the Philippines, was in a site office at the Albany Megacentre, about 15km north of Auckland Harbour Bridge, when it was picked up and hurled into a wall by the 200kmh twister.
He died at the scene. Another of his Fletcher Building colleagues was critically injured.
Auckland Council building inspectors have completed the assessment of the commercial properties at the shopping centre and Albany Mega Centre. Five commercial buildings were damaged.
Ninety percent of the nearby Albany Mega Centre has been operating normally since Thursday.
More than 200 properties have been inspected by Auckland Council building inspectors after the tornado swept over Albany on the North Shore, down to Glenfield and across the harbour to Pt Chevalier.
