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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS# M& P6 Q& \3 q3 ]' X
4 G6 r$ o4 r3 K. L/ _1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.6 O v1 P0 w$ N. l. Q
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.( G/ l( `: E2 @5 H1 J% c1 e- \% t
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.5 A! a* g, k$ f5 K: Z* L. k/ K
9 Z0 L! G8 p: z. q2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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$ y+ n) \9 o2 ?1 o1 hMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.6 z$ M% x& T' ~" t0 s9 i
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7 F" W3 e# i( ?) JWestmount 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.2 E7 T- m0 i6 S; o+ l/ l A f' ]' Q
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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