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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS6 N/ C1 J7 d) ^( e. J- e+ _
6 U: K. |- d. E- ]6 d: }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.2 b, p) q: T! c4 _
- ~9 V; `& _6 k: R9 S1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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, o* B! J) E: a2000: 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.# E' E, o. {# h0 C2 N
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."( c/ f" i" ]8 R& q; n: J
3 R# T/ U. ^& dMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.0 r. e2 K4 P, ?+ n" g$ t1 u
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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.# Z& m1 c/ e1 D" o- L" F; _4 k
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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