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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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" e C+ Y; G( a* f1 v; S# b1 p) Y1955: 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.0 m. G( m. y2 }! d9 _' l
" j7 J, X: F* S; R/ |1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.% j8 F: h2 n* F7 V9 r: `7 f
/ [- X3 m: |) \9 h8 d3 [5 B2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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1 f9 N% C& g8 p0 N2 n" `! L9 u k2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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, x$ {! }2 i3 d" QMARCH 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.9 v2 k2 J; d Q) X. x. C: j9 m3 e
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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.2 g; Y! G: W0 z" q* o2 J! {% s; e
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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