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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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1 H7 i( d, N) C+ Z$ v. R3 v1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.
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$ |, Z$ [; F; a- u- X9 p2 v5 G# A1 u1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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8 p% B. ^# ~' F* }6 M/ h2000: 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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( V: t" A3 y2 g+ p2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."7 p4 o" k4 k t" {. ]% W* P% D. a
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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.
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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.( [4 e! a: z" j
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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