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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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' k" B0 w3 `$ ^& Z, U. U# E1955: 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.9 R% {0 j- s f9 ^) x. {3 g) n
1 F. s3 q" a4 t# h% u4 u1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.; s1 u) m- ?, _
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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."! \5 k1 I: y0 f+ O
' Y E& l) J/ G# @4 U) g8 J3 c0 \1 wMARCH 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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- T( R0 {& d9 q4 \" r0 ]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.& P+ T, J" r& [7 L; q% ?
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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