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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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0 Q# V4 Q6 ]( P! b1955: 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 O% S! o( X! ?1 Y
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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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8 g2 f. s4 s% k. j; Z1 i* T2000: 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.) Z) i* _* Y" e; A& p7 R6 }
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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% L- E- u' h% cMARCH 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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( ^" v& p W/ n8 [. cWestmount 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.
) e1 `3 e( M3 z: WPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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