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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS, N) s, e* N* Q, c
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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.2 x8 B6 u4 H3 }( Z k5 K
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.1 p: m7 u& u3 |( \$ r
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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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9 d& [: C* W; b/ t# x8 B1 Y1 \2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."2 u+ p3 j. u# l5 i
, @) F& b9 f; x6 w, y* \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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9 u2 g6 g# X0 L* a. h& QWestmount 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.9 W) q9 \4 t0 j# j
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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