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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS/ T _+ z& I1 D2 B) ]& d$ [
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1955: 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.4 j/ x" j- k B
3 U7 z2 c; s7 L. _4 H, A1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations./ F m3 i; L6 d
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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.1 q+ u1 C( R1 {. h% X( M* ~' b# c
/ e, b9 E5 |3 J( S5 k2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."% U e2 l- f% E2 A1 z
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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.; T" c) l# o+ f+ P
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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.
9 ]+ G: @; F" L8 G5 EPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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