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Owner unveils plans to transform Westmount mall into outdoor shopping complex

Edmonton’s first shopping centre is going back to the future. First Capital Real Estate Investment Trust unveiled plans on Thursday to redevelop the middle section of Westmount Centre, converting the mall into an outdoor-access retail complex.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

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A brief history of Westmount Mall

A moment in history: March 13, 1959

On this day in 1959, Edmonton's first shopping mall was advertising its "pre-Easter" sales.

edmonton.taproot.news

 

[ADob]

"Surface" parking, no less! Loves me some random quotation marks! And good god, look at the price of bacon!!!

 

[trevorhayden]

That same pack of bacon would cost $6.86 today. What does bacon cost these days?

 

[David A]

"Surface" parking, no less! Loves me some random quotation marks! And good god, look at the price of bacon!!!

Well in that era, Westmount was close to the edge of the city, so would have been something similar to South Edmonton Common now.

 

[ADob]

Well in that era, Westmount was close to the edge of the city, so would have been something similar to South Edmonton Common now.

I was commenting on the random punctuation, not the presence of parking itself. As far as the comparison to South Common - Westmount, like most traditional malls, was and continues to be a park once set-up, something SC most definitely is not. Wrong thread but whoever "designed" SC needs their head examined (note the proper use of sarcasm denoting quotation marks ).

 

[Barnaby]

I'm not understanding why these mall owners aren't selling portions of their lots to developers. Most of them have a grocery anchor which would see a boost from 300-500 people living in 2-3 towers.

The peak parking is only on a few days for the entire year, and a place like Southgate has LRT access. I'm even taking the train there today instead of driving from DT.

What are they thinking?

 

[trevorhayden]

Mindset change? Mall owners are redeveloping parking lots in other cities; it will eventually come here.