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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS$ R6 L- L4 }! r3 f( C y3 f* l+ d
% o: e% N# I1 W0 x1955: 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.3 _" |' P9 u, Z4 c3 {+ Y% t
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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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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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. u& H1 E# g s3 ]; w9 Z! z8 b2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations.". |/ [: u. ?$ d# B
3 M! ?% Y1 B# I( N4 d8 IMARCH 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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" S# p6 t/ O, ]' k& }( j1 o8 OWestmount 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.
) W4 k3 F/ g3 I! @7 KPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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