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' R$ W/ O5 C1 e, c/ \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.
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7 v2 G5 f) b) N \# H6 _) o1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.% {5 r2 B# `) u. n7 \/ }; ]* g
# m* u6 T- u8 B- U, c2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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8 @/ z) n! M) l# k* A% J/ y: e2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."- M5 e; ]: W3 j. C/ O$ E( B1 G
3 ~3 U; b$ d; j1 j" YMARCH 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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. Y4 M6 V6 E1 }9 H* \( ^- bWestmount 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 ~$ f. Q6 W6 hPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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