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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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! a5 [, _1 ^; `, c# \% L: Z% w1955: 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.! \5 t9 a( y" a+ m6 j- Q4 m/ c
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.: f! E& c2 [6 p( }9 v7 F
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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.8 H& I/ [2 L+ \8 y; m
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."% f7 y0 P1 t, G- j! x
% r/ U4 P% e" Y9 ~4 [4 A/ ~4 o6 cMARCH 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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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.
; H4 w" l3 E4 f, cPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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