Unirea Shopping Center in Bucharest paints itself black as it goes through new facade facelift

The Unirea Shopping Center in Bucharest, whose building dates back from the Communist period and which underwent several facelifts in time, goes through a new one. The store's facade is currently being painted in black and will be covered with symbols of retailer Inditex, which runs the Zara, Stradivarius, Bershka and Pull & Bear stores within the shopping center. Stradivarius' logo includes the G clef sign, which will also be displayed on the shopping center's facade.

The sides of the stores have been already revamped by Inditex, when it opened the Zara store, and by H&M, which painted one side of the store white earlier this year. Unirea Shopping Center, owned by the Adamescu family, has recently shifted around the mix of tenants, making room for new names on the ground floor. The store, which was built in 1976, reported a turnover decrease of 11.6 percent last year compared to 2009, reaching almost EUR 20 million. Below is a picture of how the store's facade used to look like.

(photo source: opening picture: Corina Saceanu/Romania-Insider.com; second picture: arhivafoto.ro)