Westmount Centre
Coordinates: 53°33′40″N 113°33′13″W / 53.56111°N 113.55361°W
 Westmount Centre | |
| Location | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
|---|---|
| Opening date | August 18, 1955 |
| Owner | First Capital Realty |
| No. of stores and services | 75 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 3 |
| Total retail floor area | 439,000 square feet (40,800 m2) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
Westmount Centre is a shopping centre located in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It contains 75 stores and services including Safeway, Shoppers Drug Mart, Walmart (formerly Zellers), The Home Depot and the four-screen Empire Theatres cinema complex (now abandoned). There is also a large food court in the mall.
History
Westmount Centre was started as a strip mall called Westmount Shopper's Park in 1955.
When Westmount Shoppers' Park opened in August 1955, it was Edmonton's first shopping mall and it created quite a stir in the growing city. With Woodward's, Johnstone Walker and Kmart as anchor tenants, more than 40 other merchants and 3,000 free parking stalls, it was unlike anything Edmonton had ever seen.[1]
Food Court
Westmount Centre has a food court with 9 tenants. Outside tenants are 3, restaurant tenants are 4 and former tenants are 4. It is the smallest food court in Edmonton.
- Taco Time
- Subway
- Dawgs
- Oriental Gourmet
- Nikki's
- Arby's
- Discovery Daily Hot Dinners
- Edo Japan
- Yogen Fruz/Antonio's
- Safeway
Outside:
Restaurants:
- Boston Pizza (Outside)
- Smitty's
- Karly's Kafe (in Smitty's)
- Tony Roma's
Former:
- Zellers Family Restaurant (replaced by shopping space)
- McDonald's (now abandoned)
- Orange Julius(now replaced by space)
- Empire Theatres(now abandoned)
Anchors
- Walmart
- The Home Depot
- Shoppers Drug Mart
- Safeway
Other tenants include Gold's Gym, Le Beauty Salon, Passion Hair and Vitality Health Foods. Former:
- Blockbuster (converted to Halloween City, now Christmas City)
- Empire Theatres (now abandoned)
- Zellers (now a Walmart store)
A former attraction was a hockey arena, now a Gold's Gym.
Books, Music & Electronics
- Bell
- Computer Camp
- Super Tunes
Former:
- Game City (relocated Fall 2009, now Computer Camp)
- The Source (now Woodcroft Health Centre)
Gifts & Specialties
- Ardene
- Best Buy Jewelers (relocated Oct 1 2009)
- Carlton Cards
- Dollarama
- Frame Shop
- Hangers
- Leather Centre
- Liquor Depot
- Monarch Jewelers
- Showcase (relocated 2010)
Outside Tenants
- Boston Pizza
- McDonald's
- Tim Hortons
- TD Canada Trust
- Safeway Gas Bar
Entertainment Facilities
The movie theatre in the mall, last operated by the Empire chain, first opened in 1985. This theatre replaced another cinema located in another part of the mall which originally opened in 1959 as the single-screen Sahara Theatre. The Sahara Theatre became the Westmount Theatre in 1965 when Famous Players took it over. Famous Players twinned the theatre in 1971 by building a smaller, 500-seat auditorium adjoining the existing 800-seat one. The current theatre had four screens until it shut down in the spring of 2011.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Herzog, Lawrence (September 1, 2005), Westmount Mall at 50, retrieved 2007-09-27
- ↑ http://movie-theatre.org/canada/ab/edmonton/edmonton2.pdf
