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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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7 o2 v3 f" ~1 J; n! L$ V9 {6 y: v1955: 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.+ a1 p4 L) H6 J- W
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.! H( j+ l% _% \
* P) A' N% u# D* T" p2000: 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.: N4 {' |# j9 t9 y) S
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."4 f! w; k) J& q; H
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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 $21-million Home Depot.6 b0 q$ h" \. }. Y
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1 j/ q: l& Z& i: f. o |3 Z6 T! wWestmount 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., b* N5 ^9 A! j7 o" \2 b
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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