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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS6 F! H: ?4 k9 k
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1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.
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( H E6 c$ c7 H: b+ i8 v1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.2 ^6 b: X+ ~3 C |. B
3 O. J7 j# }) A9 s# R0 q2000: 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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* q0 y% G+ M' o) C/ Z, f8 n2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations.". P, c2 l2 g. P4 Y0 N
2 `! @7 S3 j; xMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.; N8 l8 l- N) g: L8 o, e3 G
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.6 b$ c# i E8 s0 z4 ?9 u2 N5 _2 c
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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