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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS" R1 y0 f3 p1 ^) {4 w7 B( c
! M5 {2 C0 q7 P! g1955: 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.6 f7 I L- ~! j! j( T
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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5 T3 v2 T$ p4 }6 D2000: 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.& k" z, i) q6 S' E, G# i, S0 p
2 |' M+ f3 E2 @5 }2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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9 [4 z6 g. |# _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 $21-million Home Depot.) @$ \$ v. g1 I" h8 h3 ]9 j
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5 t* n9 w3 g" H) n" |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.
/ Y/ [9 N- S$ @" \: {, RPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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