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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS6 d# E; v; o6 N: @# y9 r
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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.
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. J+ @7 d! l7 ^- t, v, B1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations., f1 x- |: A: f% I( r% I- J {
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.8 ?: ]# B( m$ U% D
& V- z) g( [$ [6 V. d2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."7 n0 A6 J7 S$ D
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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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; }* I( Q7 P1 ?- l2 iWestmount 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' G) w6 e' `+ m: H8 M
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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