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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS9 C% {, z& h5 v& W7 _7 h
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1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.: p# m$ U5 h( x& A
! w2 ]0 z% T( l- l7 L. I1984: 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 $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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5 o6 v2 f: d2 A7 k. o v2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations." y% a+ x7 T# I$ e* l( u5 y; E: _
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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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4 r k* D3 @) r4 J* W5 A' K/ E+ DWestmount 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 V/ R8 V. p! ^) ?& @# K, VPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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