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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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; k1 G. \' d- q) G7 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.. P! |. k+ E3 Q1 b
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.$ `/ R( i( S6 j" Z5 W8 S
" p) ?* D4 Z0 o8 f2000: 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."# d' |" h; A% f* Z
; y% f1 J* P8 \, Q" E6 UMARCH 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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. i& l9 ~! u6 n1 m9 KWestmount 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.
. K% ~" C. b( D5 f( |Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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