Jeepers. That didn’t take very long.
This is not just any mall, mind you, but the hubristically named Mall of Berlin—the largest Germany’s capital has ever seen, including not only shops but (as yet unfinished) apartments and a hotel. And guess what? While it’s only been open since the autumn, the whole project is already bombing…
It’s not that Berlin’s government and developers don’t have the guts to take on major projects to transform the city. They just really suck at them.
It’s a gallery… It’s a shopping center… It’s the Super-Mall (of Berlin)!
Oh boy, another mall. I’m outta here (not).
A gigantic German department store, rebuilt in the heart of Berlin on the rubble of a shopping center seized by the Nazis, was opened on Thursday with a ceremony paying tribute to its original Jewish owners.
The near 1 billion euro ($1.3 billion) “Mall of Berlin” — an entire quarter with a glass-covered arcade, 270 shops, a hotel and flats — marks the spot where the Wertheim store was built in 1896.
Observing Hermann 