![2008-08-18 Westmount Centre](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/2008-08-18_Westmount_Centre.jpg)
Westmount Centre is a shopping mall located in the
Woodcroft neighborhood of Edmonton. It opened in 1955 and is owned by
First Capital Realty
First Capital REIT is a Canadian public real estate company, specializing in retail real estate, and based in Toronto, Ontario. It is one of the largest retail landlords in Canada.
History
First Capital was founded in 1994 as Centrefund Realt ...
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Anchors
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Safeway
Safeway is an American supermarket chain founded by Marion Barton Skaggs in April 1915 in American Falls, Idaho. The chain provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and features a variety of specialty departments, such as bakery, d ...
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The Home Depot
The Home Depot, Inc., is an American multinational home improvement retail corporation that sells tools, construction products, appliances, and services, including fuel and transportation rentals. Home Depot is the largest home improvement re ...
(opened 2008 in former Blockbuster and Scotiabank locations)
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Dollarama
Dollarama is a Canadian dollar store retail chain headquartered in Montreal. Since 2009 it is Canada's largest retailer of items for five dollars or less. Dollarama has over 1400 stores and has a presence in every province of Canada; Ontario has ...
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Shoppers Drug Mart
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (named Pharmaprix in Quebec) is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores in nine provinces and two territories.
The company was founded by pharmacist Murray Koffler in 19 ...
* Ace Liquor Discounter (rebranded from Liquor Depot when some locations rebranded)
Former anchors
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Walmart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquarter ...
- opened 2012 in former Zellers, closed October 19, 2022 and relocated to
Kingsway Mall
Kingsway Mall (formerly Kingsway Garden Mall) is a shopping centre located in central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The mall, constructed in 1976, completed a $70-million redevelopment from 2007–2009. The "Revealing" held the weekend of 13 Novembe ...
in all of the first floor of its former
Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...
and part of the second floor
* Liquor Depot (rebranded to Ace Liquor Discounter when some locations rebranded)
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Blockbuster
Blockbuster or Block Buster may refer to:
*Blockbuster (entertainment) a term coined for an extremely successful movie, from which most other uses are derived.
Corporations
* Blockbuster (retailer), a defunct video and game rental chain
** Bl ...
- original location replaced by
The Home Depot
The Home Depot, Inc., is an American multinational home improvement retail corporation that sells tools, construction products, appliances, and services, including fuel and transportation rentals. Home Depot is the largest home improvement re ...
in 2008, 2nd location closed in 2011, and is now Ultracuts and PetValu
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Zellers
Zellers was a Canadian discount department retail chain and is currently a brand name owned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Founded in 1931 in London, Ontario, in later decades it was based in Brampton, Ontario. Zellers was acquired by HBC ...
- former
Woodward's
Woodward's Stores Ltd. was a department store chain that operated in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, for 101 years, before its sale to the Hudson's Bay Company.
History
Charles Woodward established the first Woodward store at the corner o ...
, closed in 2012 and replaced with Walmart the same year
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Woodward's
Woodward's Stores Ltd. was a department store chain that operated in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, for 101 years, before its sale to the Hudson's Bay Company.
History
Charles Woodward established the first Woodward store at the corner o ...
- replaced by
Zellers
Zellers was a Canadian discount department retail chain and is currently a brand name owned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Founded in 1931 in London, Ontario, in later decades it was based in Brampton, Ontario. Zellers was acquired by HBC ...
* Sahara Theatre/Westmount Centre Cinemas - opened as the independent Sahara on January 13, 1956, taken over by
Famous Players
Famous Players Limited Partnership, DBA Famous Players, is a Canadian-based subsidiary of Cineplex Entertainment. As an independent company, it existed as a film exhibitor and cable television service provider. Famous Players operated numerous m ...
and reopened as the Westmount on August 12, 1965, twinned in 1972 and closed in 1987
* Famous Players Westmount 4 (later Empire Theatres Westmount) - opened November 8, 1985, taken over by
Empire Theatres in 2005 and closed February 27, 2011
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Cineplex Odeon Westmount 4 - opened December 20, 1985,
Cineplex Westmount opening - Edmonton Journal, December 20, 1985
/ref> closed in 2000
* Gold's Gym
Gold's Gym International, Inc. is an American chain of international co-ed fitness centers (commonly referred to as gyms) originally started by Joe Gold in Venice Beach, California. Each gym offers a variety of cardio and strength training equi ...
- formerly ice rink, closed in 2017, reopened briefly as Crunch Fitness and closed
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Shopping malls in Edmonton
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