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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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3 @. }, u( y. {1 \1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.2 ^1 Q; W( x6 m9 K; `1 u, |7 n
5 a: k$ T* k2 D! c0 @% E& U1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.4 G8 I" i( [/ s# I5 Q( n# P
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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.' Z8 E6 ^. a s1 j1 h
/ `+ |; p: s: P6 U4 [2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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8 {5 l0 r! I- Z' j9 @3 wMARCH 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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9 q4 E- A/ o9 p' p: D: d# EWestmount 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.' d4 z% I& H/ ]5 Y/ u% n
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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