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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS3 N. k! p- A0 c0 d3 X3 T3 A6 P! x
0 u: w3 R$ f0 a4 O+ H1955: 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.* L2 i6 w5 s, z5 ^
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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 $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.7 T" c2 ~0 s3 R- \, h# r+ S
. d$ J* R9 W* P: z2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations.": b9 j5 w: j* H4 ^, m% _, x: a: m
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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.8 n1 z% T% o, p
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- @+ p+ [" r1 P" ]" Y9 c1 QWestmount 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.! q9 r( j) K& A) j* A
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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