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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.$ d5 y! Q1 K. i: Q0 l2 h
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations. | E c" ~& @+ G9 M9 `* B
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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." Q2 {4 k% k# u' W' x
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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! y# L8 f* g* J) C' }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 $21-million Home Depot.) ?9 W( @% O. Y9 x
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall., G$ ]3 D# H9 ?- D% F. r) q% P
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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