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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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1 T7 a& W# p9 w1 q9 d1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.' P; [% B, ]. r+ F; W5 Y) K
: E. f/ _# f, y1 N" K; y$ A1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.8 C* p- @1 O3 B* p/ u2 u! t, f
% H; |+ \# e; n# v/ L! E3 e; K2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."7 K) ?$ F; x* Z
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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.( r' [5 P: c! C# O: B: @* v4 D
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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