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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS1 C! B6 Q+ s% ]
0 i0 L5 l. h, q( G$ g1955: 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., t4 F1 ]+ I0 l' l
" E& ?' @8 I( f+ x/ B; J1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations., Q% N! d3 } q, S, D: L2 }
, |/ {& S0 ^ L& z/ L; T: g' _2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.& N, }! N* A$ R5 V" W- J2 b& V( {0 A
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."6 ~- d) G6 j9 J- p+ O
, s! m" r7 a: RMARCH 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.* U6 ]/ q1 f; T% i
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5 l0 M+ x8 X; j O8 @" I6 ^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.( p, @/ X& _+ |
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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