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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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: Z% @" w% q7 h& b1955: 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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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.# @4 o- D! P) c0 J
0 T' Y5 Z: _/ k2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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/ ~8 O* Z0 K& c" S. ^% @& J$ ^2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."9 E2 g, V* x4 k* f; n6 k- P
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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 $21-million Home Depot./ E4 L$ \/ V( ?, m; Y+ P. `
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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.1 p: Q7 Y7 M' \9 [7 L5 p
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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