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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS2 A+ K- n& C5 r: e* V+ ]. a
2 U* J" ?3 T2 ~; [8 T* }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.; @1 I! }# [# R' n" s! X0 ^; q- O
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.0 F, [1 Q, z! o
2 @, B+ ~$ x+ T2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."' P2 u7 \* y6 c6 m( @
8 w% j/ \1 V2 {7 M$ ?1 EMARCH 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.% G" I3 `+ P! E" ?+ W
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; y) `0 ^0 j! e8 n5 U; U% mWestmount 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.
4 }1 [2 t3 u+ I& _& a8 VPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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