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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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2 [/ ?+ D+ _) k* Y1955: 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./ O: D' z* C; T% L3 E+ f( W
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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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1 f Z6 A) F& K; ^% C2000: 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.: e+ ]) u& h( J, A8 F. K
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations.": @9 J3 x5 @* U: o! h
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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 $21-million Home Depot.- l$ B4 n- k" i. {( |! b$ Q1 r
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/ x& N# {1 z# |& c! @+ Q/ SWestmount 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.7 _7 c# [! F9 S- {. c% f. X
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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