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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS+ t: x3 I( _0 k u& n% R1 X
- m# M, B) N) E! N2 w( z1955: 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., n7 e1 j/ U' k( Z6 z
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.1 ]+ K% V0 O! I8 [4 c1 R: I# y
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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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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."- `) |% @3 s0 _* K9 Q2 u( D: a
* e6 D' ?9 A. H2 p x6 AMARCH 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., s2 d& p8 @% J* J0 o/ V8 _
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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.; u/ {/ U5 f4 X/ I
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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