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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS2 D2 K. ?/ \; m, w9 e
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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.
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.' }9 b: N/ d2 R! |+ }
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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.) j% ^/ b, a4 {8 T" A
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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# g% ~, l+ b& U: {. C! [( g* S8 LMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.- p' [1 w4 _4 q4 Z$ G: M) E/ _
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* L3 Z8 g, R! F ~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.& S0 Y% q2 g* c# @- a
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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