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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS+ K& |* Z: N2 q1 M# U% S5 c
" M. Y# ]1 ^; i0 g6 H1955: 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.6 v" v- z7 l; W7 N- Q
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.2 U4 O. l& s( }$ B* ^
c$ ?( S: Z$ ]. _) k5 t, [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.+ k: ^, F' k" W) l' g/ \
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."& ^3 z4 D. F R/ R8 S% x: \
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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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* @& ^* ~- D5 N% ]4 LWestmount 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.- |( c4 _: `* Z' @ }) b0 s
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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