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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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* w5 Q+ P7 C' D3 o1955: 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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/ h* @+ a: x4 q6 u2 |9 B" a1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.& e* c* Y/ |% W$ {* q6 M, N
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.0 |7 X/ y3 ]! H0 O
1 Y' `8 v, ~! D5 F$ u0 a/ P2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."4 k; P4 v" v& L$ g" |7 \9 G
9 E7 p9 L7 P5 ` AMARCH 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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4 t; }) k3 \2 c1 Y' K' ^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." C' R4 B4 {& Y; r) A& c* i
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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