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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS0 d/ c" e, ^1 B {
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1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.
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. E; x* L$ l9 g/ {- K1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.7 b1 k8 s( c* d6 Z, ]8 w3 T
7 S( m# p! _ }) M2 Z* t) X2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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7 Q2 o% Q2 `; y$ I" P2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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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.
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4 I. T1 O) Y1 U6 c, Y6 bWestmount 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.- k5 Q9 _4 r5 `
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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