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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS! h, [) }6 r: j0 h
f" O4 {* }- G! |0 [" K9 y1955: 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 $25 million on renovations.$ M; C$ }; e& |, {
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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0 T- t+ ]7 h. E& ?2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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% k+ U K5 j9 _$ Z1 [, `) p2 dMARCH 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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3 i0 _" o6 O* [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.
4 E `- L5 d6 J, R8 tPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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