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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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" p" M- O- g6 P7 p1955: 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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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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2 H& W+ W; x( \1 L) t: D" \2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."* t2 H* a1 S" O2 [3 d) j2 K' ^
! k. |' r: F' p; OMARCH 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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5 ]9 I# H8 ~6 BWestmount 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.* N( U( T+ P& W
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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