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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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1 ?4 j. ]# U: q, _3 t1955: 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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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.- W7 d! r% N6 e* D: \. ?% @% H
: N& R9 W! T. I3 X9 K. I2000: 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.) b" `, p5 d" z( o
8 g% C1 W: b {" R2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."1 a8 L* _0 s7 z9 G( m
; V# S: e3 n! g" f2 {8 gMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.: P; ~: J& m6 O5 e
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3 L- p- M! `( I9 D q, a3 K+ ]/ I' V$ sWestmount 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. y0 V) O- Q* J7 g2 V7 `' b8 k
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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