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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS$ L# S4 Z! f0 I5 ]% m
& a& ~5 `* M9 x1955: 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 a8 g' v! B" R; t8 x& ?1 \ m; w
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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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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.' t m8 S- |" a6 H5 E4 i+ U
' U( a# E0 o S1 o2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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9 W: C) Z0 W* q9 i: LMARCH 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.6 j: o; X5 H U0 k6 U, }
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( A8 s' Q. |6 x& ? B1 h9 T6 ?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.8 R g0 y! B' D. G6 m" @' d8 k( i
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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