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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS& B1 X, C, ~1 S% Z3 _8 \: N& J
8 d6 k' t3 h1 q7 ?- d, N1955: 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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6 c5 G9 a2 n- z3 L \1984: 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 $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.8 f; @2 }0 E N4 @! q$ h i0 ]$ P: r
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."9 ~. `( e) N- s& @- m* z
# O6 }9 b( @6 X+ XMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.5 Y V1 d$ U# r1 u) E* W5 h
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0 M! p. c( b O4 M) dWestmount 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.% A0 [+ k- l' j7 d) i3 E; \8 U5 w) e
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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