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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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J6 k9 x3 n+ R7 d8 d: Z1955: 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.& d8 i, a. \6 O# A
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.# |* ~; ^. {0 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.
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+ e' ^( p1 E0 z. u. D& j8 D2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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. z. T1 c: u/ y) bMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
6 k$ q) A' O: @# G9 n( P. C( aPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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