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# A$ L) e& m' S+ F, J/ V6 F( d5 K1955: 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.7 K0 k- J& H; n7 ]% C* `7 ^! n
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.7 `( a4 T% u* F
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers. `% E. J ]8 P6 m |( }, B
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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" p, V6 p$ O7 a3 i7 e" sMARCH 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.3 l- V9 D+ X8 S) ^4 e
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5 R0 t3 Y& Z1 F" X% 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.
* g4 O- I) T% ^Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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