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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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) Y6 g% d9 {2 w1955: 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.
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.5 ~) x1 O0 r+ |5 w1 x
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.7 Z _5 g- `/ g& e: j
# x4 u3 S* c4 u+ C4 F2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."" ?$ X7 r2 S1 j+ \+ v" I
+ A/ {/ h4 W5 A2 D, P' h: L& c5 HMARCH 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.
' @, w5 S( V5 J4 qPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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