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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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9 {' k& M0 |# W) A6 a$ T3 E, D1955: 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." {1 C" Q" g5 X" m& ?
- i, M3 y! [8 W; Q) q1 E1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.+ V1 t2 I; F0 h: o i) N! J0 }& D( O$ i; r
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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.; a" z; O7 G+ Y
; s! X W- n1 C6 D; h# s0 d6 O2003: 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 $21-million Home Depot.( e* n2 ]* Z% M
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
" Q. Q4 l r$ ^3 b- QPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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