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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS6 ^/ T/ z1 h% \
4 d5 I; b0 L+ ~& Q. u1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.$ g. w% Y: Z# E6 \1 R& y* o
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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.3 t- J4 O. V0 w8 o. f/ I' Q
% C3 U' }# y& `5 z5 R/ g& F2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."! a. t: ]# j6 [9 a' h g6 a
1 @! Z0 ~* V# ?: g6 gMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.
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F2 ?& b4 Z; v$ G0 QWestmount 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.# q0 r: z3 b w* X5 Z
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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