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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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! o% F, ?) V/ [$ y1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre. J$ v0 ]$ o1 ]7 D' ^" G0 M, y
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations./ u* a/ m) c! f8 O( h: ]
/ {$ G" F' f4 U4 T+ S8 I$ U2000: 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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# z+ q6 v- g7 l* S i. b/ H2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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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 $21-million Home Depot.7 }7 v. Y/ r _
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7 R% Y0 ^ v% \- E( t% w X' GWestmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
# L! F$ C, k2 B sPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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