Gentrification in Your Cities

[Yuri S Andrade]

Londrina is a very young city (founded 1929/emancipated 1934), so there's nothing too much to gentrify. Maybe the wooden-houses stock, which is very unusual for a Brazilian city.

Anyway, on the east border of Downtown, right on the place George Craig Smith (from the Paraná Plantation, a London-based company led by Lord Lovat) founded the city, they turned those abandoned warehouses into a 48,000 m² GLA shopping mall, opened two weeks ago:


2006

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Kaplan (SSC)



2013

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For more pics, the official thread: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=768514



It couldn't be better for the city, as the western section of Downtown is very upmarket, while the eastern is old and decrepit.

And also we have the symbolism: the British theme right on the place the British founded their first city in their northern Paraná lands. A nice tribute to Londrina's history.