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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS8 b" Q& j1 L8 T: X
6 s& _& b# Y. ]) d- A$ m1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.
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: u6 D1 Q$ O7 c; K8 Y5 P1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.- g) K' J7 }' I! _- f4 f8 _
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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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& L% f4 j1 }+ Z) _% i; o2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."3 u% F w4 C, W
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MARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.( t$ t J O) l: f$ l' ^7 i. ?+ D
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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 S% {3 h3 ?) L/ a$ r" X
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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