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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS. ]( K- r( p# M& [8 W
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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.
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; G( b0 j" y. M4 j1 W* R! S7 I, T1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations., R: G2 {# O s, Q9 H: p/ S
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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, M; w, I9 L. L3 d2 f2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations.") a; B# g) t$ u* t
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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 $21-million Home Depot.
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1 [' M8 J& O& k6 h' I: m2 Z- ?& IWestmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.9 b# @$ ~( c0 I, E8 X* A; E j
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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