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WESTMOUNT THROUGH THE YEARS
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) a6 z3 q6 j( x7 Y/ |4 I1955: 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.! R& ?! y7 ?' @1 q) k8 o
( ~1 s& m" x+ n8 J% r0 Z# _1984: Triple Five Corporation, developer of West Edmonton Mall, buys property from Woodward's and spends $25 million on renovations.
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' p% k% m+ E9 m2000: New owner Dundee Developments spends $30 million on facelift. Safeway moves to the mall's south end, and Zellers enlarges its store. Renovation separates the anchors in an effort to draw traffic past a new ice rink and food court. Slogan "New Cool" used to attract shoppers.3 @6 w9 K2 u% ~0 F) z- V2 a/ b
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2003: Sandalwood Management buys mall and starts adding stand-alone stores on "pad locations."
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8 [) y+ `$ V% X) ?+ f! x* C0 ZMARCH 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 $21-million Home Depot.9 [; k" d( l6 v F: ?
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Westmount Centre as it looked Thursday, (left), when a new owner announced plans to redevelop the 52-year-old shopping mall to include a new Home Depot store.; Westmount Shopping Centre first opened in 1955, (top right), as a strip mall.
/ g! b) j- b2 ~. x$ m8 A! J& PPhotograph by : Brian Gavriloff, The Journal, File |
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