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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS# u# o1 B, M$ M4 b7 p. @ M
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1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.
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/ f# f, f3 w$ U# |! g) ?7 ^( C1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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% r; `6 d" x) O- t1 T6 x6 q7 r; g$ k2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.$ z5 n3 y1 ?" t( e1 m2 l1 j* r
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations.", e: u- u8 j9 ?# g1 I& p: @& T, w
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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.
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