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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS7 o5 _4 U6 I% b2 }7 M% A
8 ~0 X7 }- [" K# ]+ X' ^1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.: F2 N2 ^' F5 d' U6 o5 |3 O& _$ c! s
; p, T* O0 ~: T/ y$ G! w1984: 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.
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."" e% W8 h. R0 N9 f
. x4 [ f( t: ]6 ~( WMARCH 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.; C7 g; `( x* e% Q* ~0 v7 Z. K
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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.
& ?+ w9 _& q( x) kPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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