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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS7 O! {+ r4 Y( ~7 y! \
! y) v% O6 Z/ y1955: 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.% K* _ Q# d0 d- K/ P& L1 |( b
2 h& Y0 _- _9 w- ?( w1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations., l0 N, g; q- r. y* E1 g( G
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.( L3 k7 f) Z, Y$ r; J, K& V
6 v' L5 a- }3 B& F& r4 l2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."! T3 s" N* ~9 B4 R! c
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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 $21-million Home Depot.1 O+ P5 Z/ N! \$ g# b8 g2 b2 X
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
" b9 B3 k1 w! O8 ?8 W$ W! x. p" x7 ] l+ X3 kPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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