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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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' B! C c5 Z5 a% O9 ?& j1955: 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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9 t! D8 f6 U- y9 l" Z! Q! r O1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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# h6 M0 V3 c" J: D7 {/ q# B2000: 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.+ [( `: F. h5 w* W3 E7 |
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."5 J+ p* a1 j* N
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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.! N& A8 h+ l3 ~
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' ]1 P1 S# w1 ^ F; i4 l1 vWestmount 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.0 W9 \( g; K6 C+ o6 T
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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