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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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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.8 B' e/ x3 e/ }0 B' A0 O
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations., ^. E/ P* {" U
" L3 n: Q( ^6 O/ ~3 C8 P2000: 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.6 P7 |, F% N, E! h' I1 N
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."" W9 a* l* N: g/ D; j3 O
+ c6 Q& P/ Z! A% oMARCH 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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: V0 m- x, Z4 f- Q& NWestmount 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 y1 L3 l) x+ N/ { ^5 T( PPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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