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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS. M. W4 M1 b0 z( ~
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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.+ u+ F! Q! m) A2 S+ ~9 [
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.2 q4 [: x8 {- E# h3 {: r# W
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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' m0 i1 t- S* i1 f2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."( h! q/ j# M% O7 o$ w: j$ j
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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 $21-million Home Depot.
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u1 x, m4 R1 O$ FWestmount 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.- N) E. Y4 j( L: E
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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