Halite is open again, after years of on-and-off. It will be a supermarket again, the purpose I remember as a child. During the communism, we would go there shopping, walk around the empty shelves, and maybe find something useful. Communism wasn’t known for full stores.
The view from the outside hasn’t changed. Perhaps the roof has but otherwise, they pursued authenticity, I think.
It has 2 floors inside – the supermarket and some food-court-museum basement. I liked how it’s made, I think this is the best version of Halite I’ve seen and I hope it stays open.
During my childhood, the building had 2 floors but both were above the ground.
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Attractive place.
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Gentrification. That’s in a quarter that’s not great but tourists don’t know it and the property prices go up, and sooner or later it will become like all the other parts of the center.
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Nice! I’d love to visit one day. As far as I remember, I’ve never been there.
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Well, it starts taking shape. Have that thing in isolation and it’s not worth visiting. But you have multiple sites with Roman ruins nearby, the central bath, now renovated as a museum, the Pirotska shopping street, a nice park, the whole quarter west from it that’s kind of hipster already. It’s just improves. Can’t put it to words. This whole area was rotten and uninteresting 30-40 years ago.
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Here in the US we have no fancy supermarkets like that.
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”Communism wasn’t known for full shelves.”😂
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