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
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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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