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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS j! O9 L- d" ^+ l1 |) J: S! b, B5 P) W
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1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.* g8 T$ @- `+ L: [* a) A8 T' g" t; a1 y/ D
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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5 b2 Q$ q) D3 c4 ]- O7 w2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.) _( [) ]. _, h/ e3 i7 A
3 b$ O7 V* ~4 }2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."/ T/ H* L5 t4 A& O4 J/ ?
7 g7 o/ Z" Z2 k+ @3 dMARCH 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.( R3 `# |8 c9 `( ^
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/ w3 A. s3 j1 G E8 kWestmount 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.
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