Zity Mall -me favorite location in Chisinau,Moldova

Zity Mall favorite location in Chisinau,Moldova

This post my be one of the strangest you’ve received, but anyway: why a local guide would essentially look back to build on that new experiences and add value to something that may look outdated ? My example is relevant. 

  TThis is my most beloved Mall in Chisinau, Moldova, called - Zity Mall. A boxy relatively old building, with a new cute facade. Nothing impressive so far. 

  But … You now, in this building, from 1967, some over 9000 people worked around the clock and manufactured around 50 million pairs of shoes until 2018, mainly for kids and men. A system of social obedience that transformed men and women into socially non-gravitating machines, producing shoes out of locally products and equally imported raw materials, for the entire Soviet Union until 1990 and Europe until 2018. Before 1990, a pair of sandals from this building could be worn by a kid in Kazakhstan or Armenia, Mongolia or Lithuania. And now, this building stands for an upgraded commercial & office complex that should drive a real estate re-purposing for the entire borough and calmly but firmly turning around the concept of what our place of work is and how buildings (places) are dependent on the energy we- people, spiritually introduce into them.

  For me it is absolutely clear that this is not the most beautiful building in the town, nor the most expressive one. However, the local investor decided to preserve the building and start emancipating this symbol out of its hard past and drive a sort of capitalist-inspired change. This building represents my country – Moldova. Presently one of the poorest countries in Europe, but certainly a country with beautiful nature, old traditions, tasty wines and good people. It somehow, transmits that changes are possible even if you choose to stay within you roots and build your way out of the night, just with what you have at present. It’s like going in an express camping with you family, in the nearest forest,  with your 8 years old son and 5 years old daughter and all you have taken with you is: a bottle of water, a knife, lights and some raw potatoes. Then you cook the potatoes on fire with your kids, you show them how important is to find simple solutions out of things that originally are deemed to have just one purpose (like cutting a cup out of plastic bottle or improvising a barbeque, etc.). And then on your way back the kids tell you that this experience is the best they had in the last months and they will never forget it. 

  Zity Mall is also about this:  a metaphor of a better tomorrow that could happen out of existing things, if we chose to care about our origin and start building a new future on a boxy, but rock solid skeleton of today. Being a local guide and transmitting this to google maps is my level 6 mission (at the moment ) and I absolutely love it. U are welcome to visit Moldova and certainly visit Zity Mall!

With respect W.Lady