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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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; I( x3 ?7 I! D. _4 _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.1 k0 Q# I9 T8 M7 ?
. k3 Q7 {! n/ o2 ?1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.1 Y1 I6 A6 q' j4 c
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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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* M" h' R- p* z x* H+ G% f2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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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.8 h4 U* x) p7 D/ J) q9 k" I4 M
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6 a, E( ]2 f5 ~9 aWestmount 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." E% i( s* m' b# s4 |, v1 {
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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