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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS3 z4 R/ V! u. d X
/ x* r, i- Q4 R& d0 e$ _& ]# \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.; _% f* u& X j+ G/ c4 N- E, Z
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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 $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.1 c4 r7 X5 l9 A
, l+ n$ ]) z' f' [6 u1 e- w" h) G2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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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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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.
% U& X9 i. ?. A e3 E+ }! r9 C- Q1 \Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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