Greetings friend Marcos! The Zingg Passage is one excellent demonstration of smart urban planning and strategic business decisions. It serves as a shortcut that connects 2 main thoroughfares (avenues) by means of a modern tunnel. Hence, instead of people going around the block to reach their destination, they simply pass through this inner corridor to arrive faster. Another lucrative decision was converting that long space into an arcade of commercial establishments to attract customers to shop, dine, etc. Such a clever design endeavor indeed! Thank you @marcosmilano71 for this interesting publication! Keep safe always and infinite blessings!
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Hello friend Erne. Greetings from Venezuela. Yes buddy, this is how you describe it. That was the great strategy of Mr. Gustavo Zingg, an innovation that opened the doors of modernity to Venezuela in the midst of the military dictatorship. The structural concept of the Passage is in turn a great commercial strategy: the corridor that crosses from one avenue to another, the shops, the innovative attraction of the escalator that at that time was a great sensation, the manufacture of the first public toilets to retain people for longer within the passage ... it was a great idea that helped the commerce of the time. Unfortunately today the Passage looks sad but it is still a place to walk through the history it keeps and because it helps to shorten the path. Greetings and thanks for your comment. Infinite blessings.