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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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4 \0 h6 Z" U! [" F. M$ H1955: 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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5 \1 x' b* a# x+ Y1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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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.1 W9 y' Q2 K- [7 m: \2 D0 [& L
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."; k; c+ T; k: O! k- W4 ^8 V
" U' U* j4 P; l) B9 M* n2 i, OMARCH 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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5 [; m% E3 X7 ]7 h4 x" c8 dWestmount 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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