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8 `/ x, c2 ~6 m5 P, ~5 ~2 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.! J& V x2 \0 q" F6 B0 d9 R
) L9 J; _7 P9 W, n2 H1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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2 F) W5 q8 u4 g2000: 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.
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; n; y3 P Q5 u1 b0 J6 j( E2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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, x# x. H5 ~8 L' P* t8 R% J3 NMARCH 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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[; C7 X E1 pWestmount 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 I% }5 ]5 e% P' ]9 GPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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