Talk:Unirea Shopping Center

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[edit] Hunger Circus and Unirea

"...with part of it being built in a former Ceauşescu-era hunger circus."

Sorry, but this isn't accurate.

The former Sfânta Vineri hunger circus is placed in the vicinity of the former "Unirea" departamanet store, but it was never a part of it, nor can the two buldings communicate.

At present, just between the Unirea big store and the former hunger circus there is a 4-level parking garage with a direct access (through a passerelle) to the hunger circus.

One part of the old hunger circus is now housing a supermarket (it's Romanian owned, called Univers'all), however the central domed part is still un/half-exploited.

Besides, calling present "Unirea" a shopping mall could be intriguing, since it doesn't meet the conditions of it, namely "a building or set of buildings that contain stores, and has interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from store to store"

I'm not noting this out of pedantry.

However, "Unirea" could work as a good example of post-communist "shopping centres" of the first generation, in the nineties, as investments were not available and entrepreneurs had to improvise, reconverting old departament stores into "shopping centres".

--Vintila Barbu 18:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Vintila, I'm not sure where you live, but have you seen Unirea since it was reworked in approximately 2003? It's much more of a mall than it was before. - Jmabel | Talk 18:29, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

i'm living in Munich, travelling much throughout Europe and visiting over and over my native city and country.

Now "Unirea", compared to what it was in the nineties, namely a conglomerate of "vendor stalls", it surely looks like a shopping center. However, compared to real shopping centers, just like they are now in Bucharest (some 4-5 of it), it looks like what it really is: a big departament store reconverted into a shopping center.

Anyway, an image of what "Unirea" used to be in the nineties, still offers now the "Cocor", some 100 meters away: a kind of bazar.

"Unirea" has got the chance of an investor (the guy who has ransomed "România Liberǎ" newspaper from the claws of those arrogant german press trust WAZ) while "Cocorul" is still stewing in its post-communist juice.

--Vintila Barbu 19:11, 22 October 2006 (UTC)s