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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS5 J% X9 N y4 l; `6 ?+ k
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1955: 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.( |1 ~5 L; h8 D5 l. F, x5 m# j3 B: {
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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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0 i6 |8 H% v6 v; d2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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8 J( Y E- s. `2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations.": {2 [$ X- {, R! l) |8 |% E
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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.+ L% C, @3 I, z6 f3 \# f/ x
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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.- G' F7 O' l) C* k. B6 Z6 f
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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