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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.
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) B. V" n7 E }1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.0 \1 u- f1 R5 Z) x
9 y" g3 k% c2 T( L) m2 l: z2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.7 n M j2 \6 U
, H* [4 e4 q: q6 K* s$ o3 X2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."2 z# S# y/ U0 o
& _( Y* ^( j' R& W, M( A4 cMARCH 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.: q3 F9 D3 X/ o
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: o* `! Y( j! @+ Y4 fWestmount 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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