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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS8 }9 Y1 \2 E& q) f# e2 w
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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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3 n6 t% Q' m2 j. m. N; Q1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.- j" u/ {# R' i, n+ S( c+ e
5 M' T" t2 h% E: }4 P; w2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."1 F A! e" B, n4 U+ b+ A, G
{/ i8 j' f8 H% a$ [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.- M% p( `. L# V( N/ A0 G" u
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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.! Q5 ?/ h [1 Z- \' @* \0 f
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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