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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS9 e& D; O4 Q( O1 X3 G/ y
& ]+ O4 F x O4 u2 i1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.$ c% I c8 a3 G! G8 Y% ^; q. a1 u
% F! q+ a7 Y' O" T7 B) o* _1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations./ L& l$ u/ X d% d, K7 [, d
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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.
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."% u3 z% y' @8 ^( @
+ ^ B( q3 e+ ~( N* _+ TMARCH 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./ ~4 V. C9 i" Q, n2 e7 r+ z
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( y, P1 ]/ _' g+ e7 [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./ }, n' o0 L, d' ]! Z# v: x# Y
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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