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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS i8 k& {, n' E$ X( z
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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.- F: j6 j( I0 k% e8 v# s
1 f* ^" ~" Z7 [( J3 y1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.# t F! Z- l6 S5 Z7 u) Z7 |
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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.6 g# C" Y/ \" `1 p* T
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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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 $21-million Home Depot.! w" d! c2 X* D8 s( x
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. m4 I4 h# f- v3 G0 r7 JWestmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
" E2 k$ y6 ^) U2 K+ M8 MPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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