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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS: U/ l2 b$ f% N6 l) V4 N. ^
, G: g, F: f8 \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.
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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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.+ l2 @, o, i- }! z. m
6 U z7 q% y2 i. f; N& U: Y. `2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."2 @2 w; _" ]3 x& \- ?) U" b
# q8 g& W; s* X7 j5 Q, y8 TMARCH 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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9 J) Q3 y) U8 G8 L1 C d* o6 J2 @/ 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.
; ]9 ~- d3 X5 QPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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