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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS. c3 i; N' k/ A8 i9 J& K0 s
: U' _$ H8 A ]6 ]1955: 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. A; E% x8 X2 j
0 k7 ^9 o6 U0 ]8 U9 F1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.( q6 E2 ~0 ]; o" l8 E
& I$ G1 }% @5 x* g$ j. @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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, K& ] O8 _ u/ r) K% S; E2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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# F/ R/ ?0 {, b1 i. HMARCH 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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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.: e1 Y* o. I& F, v
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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