It’s Saturday and our first visit to Grand Central Station.
Confusion reigned as to whether the whole station had been rebuilt; but turns
out it’s just the old Palisades upstairs. The concourse is confusing; it’s
seems to be split into two separate blocks; all guarded by ticket barriers. Yet
go there on an evening or weekend and they’re all wide open. You can quite
easily see where everything was before; and the Tesco hasn’t moved at all. Yet
it’s still a good effort. There’s a lot more choice in terms of small food
chains; though how they can compete with each other as well as the city-wide chains
is a mystery. But it’s nice to see the archway open up and you can actually see
daylight shining through; it makes you feel a lot less trapped inside the
centre of the city. Yet Kevin McCloud wasn’t impressed; even saying that the
whole thing was dull and dirty. Again, he was looking at the station rather
than the shopping centre.
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