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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS: Z; o# r. R, ~" c2 h
4 Y+ y& F( {7 I& N$ \1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.
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( H7 C2 J. q: n1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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- y; P! K8 [$ y4 L; ^2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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1 V" ^8 m: Y1 G2 e9 X, }2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."( n5 e3 p& T) M- k$ r
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MARCH 15, 2007: First Capital Realty Inc. pays $70 million for Westmount Shopping Centre and plans to demolish part of the shopping centre between Zellers and Shoppers Drug Mart and build a $21-million Home Depot.1 X( Y# r6 F: \8 n$ a( x
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall. R* y3 N( f7 p/ @) c* {
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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