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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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9 Z. s+ v3 [" ^" G/ c1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.- Y) t e$ \: j. k! z# b @" I% X
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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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; A* r: }* W4 o/ w2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.% ^$ H$ Z; F# R2 B/ }% i
) x1 w$ \! p+ l; w8 `2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."% n+ H: k9 V8 `
$ s9 @7 K) j% g% h6 B0 x. ZMARCH 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.& j8 a5 B7 y( `4 S
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* T( c; G6 p5 ^( Y% e- yWestmount 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., ?6 z7 E, {% U; C' T9 e
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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