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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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" q- i5 U; I1 S* Y; |+ t x: H4 X* ^1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.
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3 P; O5 P3 [; l" j2 _$ ~9 e1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.% v4 K0 v4 `1 U8 r- h. `# V& v7 K8 B
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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.0 H" W6 ?; f- D1 e4 j+ `
! _8 h0 e8 v0 \- S6 a4 P7 Z9 D2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."! I. ^, U7 ?8 J8 w9 @. d- ^3 k
1 p- b9 [! {) P6 @7 K5 VMARCH 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.3 d5 X6 H0 J/ W
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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.) z5 j: Z* Q8 l! e) p. j3 r
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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