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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS4 w- p: G$ d1 i8 h4 V4 p; a- D# o
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1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.: v$ L' L1 r2 M- n0 p
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers. n8 N$ i" d) z
( l6 N- q2 i5 |& {, r2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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- R2 |3 V8 H8 t/ C* b+ [2 \8 e$ tMARCH 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.. N% I8 ]5 R8 x* G, l
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, ^1 C% ?5 I! t0 z( VWestmount 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.
" r" J/ P T! k: m* ZPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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