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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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+ _/ ~6 F+ W; n1955: 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.7 u0 e2 S# `0 p2 Z+ u
+ Z+ l, v: r( [2 B( L4 O1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.1 }. w2 @# k3 d' N; Z) o
4 T% F+ L& \8 a3 T2 |/ j2000: 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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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations.") B# M: |" [1 S- U
5 B, m# C6 _5 _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 $21-million Home Depot.! H8 |. `7 D+ h
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
8 G& S! v0 ^: ^, m: w$ @Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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