Shopping Itaquera is opened
A new shopping center was opened in São Paulo: Shopping Itaquera.
It is very unlikely that tourists or business people ever come to visit this shopping. Itaquera is the very last station, in the Eastern end, of the West-East metrô line; access to the shopping will be through the station. With nearly 500,000 inhabitants, Itaquera is bigger than most Brazilian cities; most of the residents in Itaquera are of lower income classes, many have emigrated from other States in Brazil.
The opening of the Shopping Itaquera, the first one in the Eastern extreme of the city, shows that the progress is arriving, even in the most distant areas of São Paulo (3,500 jobs were opened). The shopping will have 200 shops, about ten big anchor shops, eight movie theatres, several restaurants.
In the first day, 70,000 people visited the shopping, twice as many as the average of the shoppings in São Paulo. Administrators of Itaquera said that new improvements are expected soon, such as a public Faculty, a regional Court of Justice and an inter-city bus station.