It's four months old and almost empty

Here's a highstreet shop announcing the move to the bigger and apparently more successful Fisketorvet shopping centre. This place, Tove's Gallery, promised to be a place for sensual shoppers, shopping for experience alongside products. "Once in a while, TV fulfills its highest calling—when a man first lands on the moon, say, or during the Watergate hearings. But most of the time it contents itself with reruns of Three's Company and infomercials for the home rotisserie. It's the same with the mall. It could be much better—more vivid, intelligent, adventurous, entertaining, imaginative, alive with the human quest for art and beauty and truth. But it's not. It's the mall." Paco Underhill, The call of the mall

September 20, 2008 at 4:51 PM

I might be out on a limb here, but was there a public demand for a mall kinda place here? That place has been associated with being a shortcut to get to the other side, and a dead-space for years. Have day done enough to bring the public's attention to it?

VesterBrother · September 24, 2008 at 1:53 AM

They've changed the entrance on both streets to something very red and big, but you might be right anyway. I think their real problem is that there's nothing interesting about yet another mall. The whole "sensual shopper" deal seems to have been abandoned even before it began. There's nothing in Tove's that isn't in Fisketorvet.

Morten Just · September 24, 2008 at 3:42 AM