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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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5 X4 K- n' U, s- w1955: 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.7 B* t: T- I1 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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2 W( @" w5 U1 p6 Q7 R+ H- ~* p0 C2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.) o% R e0 Q# o1 c7 b
0 y- B/ r2 p$ x2 c+ k) V5 L2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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. g" O, ^$ J! v" ]- E* _# i. ^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 $21-million Home Depot.0 z! z: o$ ], v9 ?
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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.5 F+ F$ s/ K { C7 t- B
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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