 鲜花( 0)  鸡蛋( 0)
|
WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS/ f' R1 w9 {( j! i( v
u* P( C1 c) ?- s% [# D1955: 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.
5 F1 A, J4 `" j8 s& M. T! |7 x
! G% B' J8 D! S& g- N1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
. j' R1 ]/ ~, ~
^ j# R. _% U4 ]% u2 r2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.! r/ K% l: P6 E+ R3 D) n
: v& B% u4 `5 p7 o$ r7 e
2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
# k6 [ |2 s5 W( L3 b
" g6 M" |1 K: a7 A" MMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.
* G2 Q! f; C) g4 { L& f2 ?( v
) ~ Z/ U! G1 A, `: w$ u3 K8 r& V
# t$ O" B3 t y0 r" A& G2 E
& O) K& M2 O, a) g$ EWestmount 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.! f2 C0 l5 X0 }- b( `) s& G
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
|
狗仔卡
发表于 2007-3-16 15:47
提升卡
置顶卡
沉默卡
喧嚣卡
变色卡
显身卡
发表于 2007-3-21 11:42
