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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS2 }1 J0 }7 _" ?
$ ?( Z1 B. h$ B& O/ i9 o. }: a1955: 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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/ }4 U+ h3 ^- M; ~8 U1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.* g. d' p, N! L' y, s; Z
, X. @( x; [$ y2000: 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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& Q5 `0 U9 Z# `' ?) L% f2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."' ~# C. F2 c% r) w
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MARCH 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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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 X7 E5 y" _% B* g5 B# [3 APhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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