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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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9 Y! b. ^& H* [ x1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.# s+ {& V- N- X7 j+ @4 R. o
* l$ P2 I% M Q, f/ z1 k1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.; ]- A; d) ?4 {) v
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.. {' `+ u! O$ N4 a6 t* \
: i0 Q1 Y4 i' K D% q2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."% {' y, U2 u- |# `$ 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.
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4 S, ?9 ~: D# G) q5 jWestmount 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 ~4 N' n1 j) |) a" I. {Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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