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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS7 V0 z: U) y( M7 R9 Y) }
) {! d' @0 n( C& ~% }% e1955: 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.0 i& m1 ^2 v% j' }4 j' i
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.2 m/ }% M5 l/ _1 `$ {( L( v5 M6 a
7 K- T+ d% F. P5 V. J! e2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers. J% e6 w& A2 ?/ C9 P, i4 t7 y
v0 r! e$ m- @' v) ?7 j2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."8 y6 D* i5 d* L0 R0 y0 U
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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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, ?1 M- ?% S/ b& u3 ^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.3 {1 F- q' j) d6 ]
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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