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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS6 z; r! w! I2 J$ p- }
4 b# q7 w! X' y4 X, ~) W1955: 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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/ k3 f+ c2 Q2 J) r1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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9 p: l5 L+ u% }9 D" t2000: 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.- }2 `: K- H# U5 K3 ]# L" M0 U1 D# M
1 v! e6 S+ A7 X3 a/ f2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations." _& \0 z- Q' B& \& f
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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.8 d) a- _8 g: H! I( z
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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.
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