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On Metreon's demise
A much-vaunted "shopping experience" has failed. From San Francisco, Metreon's shattered dreams:
"Our original vision was to create a space that was really innovative in terms of being a technology showplace and an educational experience," he told me Thursday, a day after Metreon's sale was announced.
"It was supposed to be a place where you couldn't tell where the entertainment ended and the retail began," Bryant said. "I truly believed in it 100 percent." That is, until Metreon opened for business. "What got created," Bryant said with undisguised bitterness, "was a shopping mall with gated attractions that you had to pay to get into. It wasn't very fun, and the public reacted to that."
(Thanks, kottke)
