ewx | Grandiose Arcade

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The Grand Arcade opened today.

It's said to mostly contain fashion shops.

It's fairly big.

The predicted bikes didn't materialize, as the bike park was open in time, but someone did park their car there.

It's full of nice patterns.

I assume there were originally more balloons.

A cow-orker claims that Adams was inspired by Lion Yard containing apparently nothing but shoe shops when it originally opened.

Adams himself always claimed to have been inspired by the density of shoe-shops on Oxford Street (which was certainly very high at the time).

The scary thing is there actually appear to be *no* shoe shops as yet in the Grand Arcade. At least at a first potter round.