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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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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.1 x _9 c/ _# M& G7 B n3 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.6 E+ {3 j& L' U6 B
; Z0 F' v: t7 d7 ~& ^! U2000: 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.! n6 d/ h' Z/ N/ _. N
' i# o) ^* ?+ ^/ o% `# J: @2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."! f9 Z5 f2 c% w9 ^7 e
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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 $21-million Home Depot.3 f. m( D+ }+ k: {
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.% y! U E i$ ]/ x0 A1 r4 C+ H
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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