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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS- Q9 d0 Q6 Y/ x- Z2 `. q# M( P
, S. o8 x L$ }( p' ?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.
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# M) I3 T- X) X1 @3 J1984: 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.
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, H" g0 X0 ]9 V; B! z0 S7 f3 u2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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T: f: O b, Q/ H6 U l! SMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.! c9 x# R2 x5 [, g
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall. l. P* f; a( R2 Z$ z% S k
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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