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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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8 o' K) ?" H& J( p8 c# C. i$ Z1955: 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.- Y2 L: ?, _% `3 n( b
! S0 h3 h" g1 |# k+ M; V1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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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.) c3 U( O; e1 `' Z9 v
1 \ H6 y/ l7 ]. k3 |. y( o! u- v2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."+ W- Q! M8 e% u
7 V5 V( [) Z& J* P1 sMARCH 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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1 s& @7 ] P. zWestmount 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.
& X7 d: W( f6 D3 S9 J+ U8 K) {Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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