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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS2 h/ H7 G) p$ H# L
- \3 x6 f9 {* `9 b5 w1 ~) z) y2 w0 U: ?5 `1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.. c- B6 r5 }, l3 ? h
7 I$ G+ n/ c+ r, X5 n- K1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.1 @7 [) g9 N- H) D4 W
! D2 [' ?8 I' W' ~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.
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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' N8 Y) d, e8 B" u( J: p7 h6 W& [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.
9 U Y8 T; @6 _) A5 ePhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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