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2 M$ z H" g2 [& j Z! Y! F4 @( x1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.$ Y, m- P6 j" X# `1 ?2 C& [+ X5 q
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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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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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6 U! A5 Y) J# \! `+ f$ a2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."9 X9 U$ ~ b0 P3 s e8 W
8 I2 s* t; M1 T% S F, a! T! \7 oMARCH 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.( n. k8 v5 A6 B- V# M; g& f) ]
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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.
7 ^) P3 j& L. L, K: U% {% w6 R8 x6 JPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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