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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS% q! M }+ T( y9 ]0 o
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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." H2 Y6 m8 ]4 [0 ~5 n3 ]
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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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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.& S' S6 r0 Q; m; }+ X
" X( y" f( t& Z. x) G. T2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations.") ~8 j Y: z+ V2 W7 U! c
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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./ {3 f/ y4 `1 m& b/ O# h
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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