Sunday, May 3, 2009

Shopping Mall or Corporate Headquarters?

From above this large complex, marked by a T-shaped skylit building, looks like it could be a shopping mall, especially with the numerous parking lots. But could it be a corporate headquarters, similar in scale to a shopping mall?

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Here's the answer, from Business Week:
"When the [headquarters] building was erected in the early 1990s, it was designed so it could be repurposed into a shopping mall without too much modification if the perennially troubled Chrysler should go out of business."
(Heard on this week's episode of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.)