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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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* `* k4 m, k: N1955: 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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* V/ Q7 ^( ?6 E" l7 B1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.2 L6 k. u; s+ I+ ~8 ?4 s
9 d0 K1 u" F" k7 G1 Z& l( o V2000: 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.# B7 L" c3 c5 X5 q9 X! M1 e' D3 \
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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/ |8 x+ A( h0 p5 z& zMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.
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! M' d* ]0 K& G* P1 F; uWestmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
9 H6 r$ `% R- x+ H! `* KPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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