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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS; `9 h" a' Y% l& ~. p" R2 J4 B
- u5 E. C4 c1 f1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre." v. M x: y+ O5 {; ^6 J0 r
2 i4 I q/ m4 D1 c$ W' f/ }1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.( I3 s" Q. @- z
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.# r Z4 {& [; c' E/ x, y' F
! p8 r1 V$ U) ^* L2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."9 Q0 ?1 ]0 S# E* T3 t5 r* |6 a
- m2 A3 M S% H% e! l* 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 $21-million Home Depot.
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.. e$ c+ a: V, z$ p; j
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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