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9 u' h+ l" P# j1955: 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./ c" O" V. j& ^. M2 m( B* O
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1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.& ]; g4 m* U* _8 J$ b( O
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2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.
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. B6 W t8 p5 T" d2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations.", ~+ R1 F) Y, Y$ n6 c7 d# _
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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.
! A3 l3 d1 u0 ?; u n4 ZPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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