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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS8 V4 A+ |: p* R- x4 }2 |. A0 H0 I
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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.. I9 B7 Y6 n; \$ g. S- G
+ N% x8 d" x! j" E1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.& m$ n4 |: ?) i" @0 e6 i; J
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers./ y3 z1 x1 m+ X7 m/ `
; F+ G+ q7 |1 m b1 j6 b2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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8 P G0 C: A2 f& M$ N8 P5 i: zMARCH 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.( L% t; X9 ^/ p. @
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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.
1 O- S1 W9 \, hPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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