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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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1 v8 d5 D5 ~; e7 p% h+ I1955: 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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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.$ k( g: }5 m: k. E5 t. g) ?- G
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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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8 G' H% c+ F! d6 D% G( j1 a2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."' p. B1 I. U" R) [% A
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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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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.6 R+ W& n( _" _/ @& J5 K/ n/ F
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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