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1 P1 M% e3 {: b$ u6 U3 \. h9 X; j1955: 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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+ L' y3 k& H, g9 W) `1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations./ W7 l/ c. i& r( l& T Q
: m, _) s2 l n2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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4 p1 x; Y4 T9 b1 R$ v7 I' r9 M2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."( [ T/ f: ]4 u- J; k6 x5 G$ K+ P
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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 $21-million Home Depot.
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
% m) U$ G" B5 ]. B2 u$ lPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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