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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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9 a# h, m/ M6 Q* e/ S/ y! S1955: 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 $25 million on renovations.5 F* [. f* X( {" s# _& E( }+ {8 Q
+ A$ b- ]: g6 Q2 j1 u2000: 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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! d- b; X# n. ^& b2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."0 B2 H4 p/ [2 l* k8 Y- R- y
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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 $21-million Home Depot.5 C" A0 i4 K$ D
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& l; d7 P; X) I( d# UWestmount 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.6 Q6 h s& r/ l: A$ _% N
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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