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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS1 p- f+ }$ e% ?
3 N1 o& H3 Q) ~3 ^7 E: i1955: 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.2 q) W& d7 M, l" n; [6 E
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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 t! I. A: e( h! R+ t! ]
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.) {: I0 S$ D6 T S3 L4 g* R
$ @$ J$ C' k& W6 h1 H2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."( H$ c. q1 A B* o1 D1 }6 ]7 U
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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 $21-million Home Depot.
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6 y* l0 a2 B" [/ Z7 zWestmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
2 ?$ f) b( {7 N( B, y/ |- rPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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