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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS, N; v+ T' _% J: _
# N3 x/ R0 f- d0 ]- t. P1955: Westmount Shoppers' Park opens with 40 stores, 3,000 parking spaces at a cost of $5 million. Woodward's anchors Edmonton's first shopping centre.: t$ [, B; S1 Y9 Q% l) _. x" i
6 k6 s5 h) E( n, o# `1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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! l+ ?, F' ~) \/ x) N5 i }* u4 _8 \7 a2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.! k, R# P1 Q8 r" l) ^# Y
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."# W- t/ ]/ y4 R3 _
7 C7 e& b6 q$ gMARCH 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.: I' {9 t* f5 y N+ A' f! v
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: @/ M/ {8 ]+ b+ X tWestmount 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.; }' J! {9 E4 |2 H
Photograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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