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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.5 i: P. R: Y4 m W6 E
0 Y0 E1 E c$ w9 C4 n$ s4 b& X1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.; q* o4 Y9 X! O# L! q
, Z6 }' ^+ T, z1 ]) B2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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T! O" w1 F, J2 W0 V' _: v2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."6 h8 M4 C! H0 D; n* Q0 @9 ~) @
1 k$ B% L# y1 E' ^0 p# `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 $21-million Home Depot.# C8 b+ @! ^ g" x5 Q/ F
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.$ l9 O% ^# Y; G
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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