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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS! u2 L1 l |6 m9 x7 u/ \
& ^: D8 P8 s; l6 y8 E1955: 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.) k5 t. h. a# K7 V
! p6 W' H! k5 ~' T# [3 u1984: 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 $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.5 ~$ q7 D/ x# u0 l: }! u1 j
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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0 H+ ?* Z E$ e) IMARCH 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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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.( R% ?/ s! b! [2 c! k8 `3 q
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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