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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS2 n# o2 f/ o% [* f( `2 o3 C( z) t9 L
7 h, ?3 c' z& [7 ?& }/ F( A1955: 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./ ^5 o8 a5 t- S
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.# A2 s& X s' ?; s2 g; e
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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2 \2 B: q \; M2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."9 I8 `4 w, @3 ^$ p& C0 U
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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 $21-million Home Depot.
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3 y/ d4 g$ o- ^8 s& mWestmount 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- J4 B$ Y7 q* @/ mPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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