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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS! I5 s) V, e7 i) z
c6 i4 W7 M) e% h( Y d: V) I1955: 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.
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.4 `) ~% x, ^" c" U: Q! f* O
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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, r5 I: V9 R. z( n5 s n: N2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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) l: o, P1 Q$ d- Z8 }( C4 ~! R1 ?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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5 |# W& h4 I& l* t. j" Y' nWestmount 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.
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