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“It’s a huge milestone for the mall,” says Matthew Dutczak, a WEM fan and historian who operates the YouTube channel Best Edmonton Mall. “For me, it just kind of puts an exclamation point on all those great memories I had growing up and how much it meant to me going to the mall.” Dutczak told Edmonton AM host Mark Connolly he’s now reliving those memories with his kids at the mall but he believes locals take the middle-aged landmark for granted. “It used to be a spectacle, it was new, it was unique, it was the only megamall in the world. Now I think people don’t realize how special it is to have something like this in our own backyard.”

September 25, 2021 | 6:53 pm