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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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5 Q _% ^' v. ^. U) g4 P! m( v1955: 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.0 h7 \. s4 ]# |! v6 r
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations., G! L9 _2 y( ~( W3 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.
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" O! |, q' M( f4 q% m5 d2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."2 ~4 t7 V5 n0 O/ Y( A! `
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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.4 C* [% X0 V! P" s/ W0 o# p* c8 ^
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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.8 Z% v- P3 D- Q" Z1 w: L
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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