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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS5 G) m4 c8 V1 c0 A) [4 c
y) D' Q' Y$ A# m1 |2 j2 k1955: 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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1984: 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." H4 R% Y* m4 [1 S
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."4 ?% P+ O6 `# Q% H% y: ^* C
; Y& y7 W1 v- t: `" \" Y* {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.( m- q2 k. S5 C0 y% ?% W
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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.
& q3 y, e4 g# R3 fPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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