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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS) g& W5 v; a) I3 V3 f4 C
1 `( p. |, N8 M3 H1955: 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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, F9 x" f4 R- [9 X0 z' o1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.8 q/ n/ e! R9 d6 V8 U7 @. M& s
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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7 t$ c. [; \4 N2 p H4 u2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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& B: f( f4 F X. V, mMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.; t1 q! s# l. |7 R0 b0 B+ }. B# u
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$ B7 z% _" H, b2 k8 D- {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.. n! H( _ t, w2 l0 W7 P
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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