The remedy to the crisis? A shopping center 3 billion!
While the word "crisis" is on everyone's lips, that Americans unable to pay the salaries of their cars and set fire to receive money from their insurance company, the Westfield shopping center will open its doors in London.
India Knight is a columnist at the Times Online. She had the opportunity to visit the new Westfield shopping center will open October 31 in London.
At the moment, on the site, 7 000 workers are busy putting the finishing touches to the new temple of overconsumption of useless products.
Covering an area of 18 hectares (000 square meters is 180, remember), with 256 shops, the construction of this new shopping mecca has cost £ 1.6 billion or two billion euros, 2.79 billion or U.S. $ 3.23 billion Canadian dollars!
The site of the Westfield shopping center tells us that this amount was not spent in vain:
Attention to detail is breathtaking: shimmering chandeliers, a champagne bar, and beautiful glass windows that appear to float above the floor.
But that's not all. Westfield also includes a plethora of restaurants, a cinema and a concierge service ... not to mention the carriers involved in your purchases!
As so the columnist, "Shopping is the glamorous and the escape and even people mowed - especially them - need to fix them: that is why malls are always crowded during working hours. "
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