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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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9 T3 Y, y$ F2 h0 Q2 }: P+ Y( S1955: 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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* o7 C1 S0 |6 f# o1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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3 G# H$ w7 x6 i' g; v2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.+ I; ]$ f' k; q2 i& Q! a8 W
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations.": v* a \/ n0 c
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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 $21-million Home Depot.
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E. x1 E, E( h. b8 ?* V1 h/ l! `6 wWestmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
5 f( y$ m: b' X7 dPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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