Ski slope in Paris? Not yet as promoters face growing outcry
Building of super-mall stalls over debate that it is not integrated into local setting
Paris
THE only thing moving in the broad expanse of wheat, colza, corn and beet fields near Paris is a half-empty city bus trundling along a brand-new road. Overhead, the ever-present noise of planes disrupts the calm.
This is the future home, local officials hope, of EuropaCity, a 3.1 billion euro (S$4.8 billion) shopping and leisure complex being developed by grocery giant Auchan Holding SA and Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin's Dalian Wanda Group Co.
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