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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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0 B. ?" |- Q, d- [3 ?' L3 } m2 T1955: 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.( |% l7 l# r3 W) @6 y; f
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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" |/ C+ Q y; X% y! Q/ y2000: 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.7 ]* D* ]# f: N# `2 a+ s
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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( h" o" @' A4 [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.; i( G3 ^" a6 ^1 E
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3 y0 M, g f" z. aWestmount 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.+ u0 k4 c7 n& k
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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