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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS" g+ W. y( w+ b, E/ L
8 Q/ |0 Q% a" ~' y/ j! `, C1955: 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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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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& Q \) A: F, V. I, B2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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5 ?& j4 k0 d, z) ], |$ b% _2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."+ ~# d# n; p( j2 i8 G; A0 |% G
, [) r: M- R8 B1 X EMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.# L: q( y4 H' Z4 K4 X
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/ h9 [1 x9 m ^: n/ V0 k, e5 _: O0 vWestmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
8 ]( x. R4 N$ _Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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