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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS/ H# Y: N1 t- ~9 U! J& \
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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. ^9 k2 L0 G, S% v( K
& D" o* H2 ]9 v5 I3 @4 C# R1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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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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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."& q i3 ^4 X! F' C; D
/ l7 O# ~% x# }. i1 Q6 ~ ^, wMARCH 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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# _( D4 h8 e4 i5 aWestmount 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.7 t; [9 o# G3 q" n9 F: `
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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