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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS9 m: x0 q$ Y7 J' o8 @
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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.
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/ M" D. d9 D1 J2 q( I4 w1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.6 y( o: c3 D2 \- w
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers. ?; b: M8 F( Z& C$ p4 m5 Z9 Z
; q# g0 c. A% [2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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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 $21-million Home Depot.) \- h2 B3 _1 M- P' \+ v" C' H
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9 {7 F4 n- r+ S# q4 J0 M4 DWestmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.- w$ L$ `8 E; c8 X
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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