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Post by kevb on Mar 24, 2022 14:32:51 GMT
I'm going to show my ignorance here and have been meaning to ask this before...
I'm not talking about the one near Agustera but that dirty great big white building further down near Cookanari restaurant.
It's visible from the roadside but I've never actually walked in. I can't believe it was conceived just as a supermarket, it looks like there were intended apartments with maybe one unit downstairs to be a mini market. It looks like the whole thing now sprawls out as an indoor market. I just can't remember it when I stayed in Kouk in 2012 and 13 but I guess it must have been there.
Anyone know the history behind it?
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Post by yorkshiremouth on Mar 24, 2022 15:55:13 GMT
The (extremely) little that I know - I’ve walked past it and actually noticed it just once, and I think it might have said something on a sign about a bakery. Or possibly not.
I know, next to useless. :-)
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Post by dennisn on Mar 24, 2022 19:43:51 GMT
The (extremely) little that I know - I’ve walked past it and actually noticed it just once, and I think it might have said something on a sign about a bakery. Or possibly not. I know, next to useless. :-) I can do better than that - I haven’t even noticed it, sorry. |
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Post by yorkshiremouth on Mar 24, 2022 20:16:13 GMT
I’ve just been on Google Maps, and there are pics suggesting it’s far better stocked than I first expected.
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Post by kevb on Mar 25, 2022 9:26:31 GMT
I've seen it listed as a bakery on maps too and I'm quite prepared to believe that's what part of it is now. It just seems an odd looking building to have been imagined as a supermarket or bakery from the start. Maybe failed apartments/residential that never got finished and then repurposed? It's just one of those quirky things that crop up all over in Greece. Nothing much eventually goes to waste unless there's inheritance squabbles involved.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2022 12:51:09 GMT
I'm going to show my ignorance here and have been meaning to ask this before... I'm not talking about the one near Agustera but that dirty great big white building further down near Cookanari restaurant. It's visible from the roadside but I've never actually walked in. I can't believe it was conceived just as a supermarket, it looks like there were intended apartments with maybe one unit downstairs to be a mini market. It looks like the whole thing now sprawls out as an indoor market. I just can't remember it when I stayed in Kouk in 2012 and 13 but I guess it must have been there. Anyone know the history behind it? I remember the the " shell " being built about 18 years ago and I was told it was going to be apartments with a supermarket at the front. Nothing ever happened , and it remained a " shell " until the supermarket opened last year , not sure if anyone shops there as they tend use Maria's at the side of Agustera or Magda's down by Bussola Bar. Maybe this year we may see more development. |
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Post by kevb on Mar 25, 2022 16:26:00 GMT
Thanks for the input alekos that makes more sense. Looking at the photos of inside it almost has a wholesalers look to it where cafes etc might come to buy bakery stuff in bulk?
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Post by balddave on Mar 25, 2022 18:38:19 GMT
I may be talking absolute garbage, but I remember asking someone in Crete many years ago why do all Greek development have spikes sticking up from the last floor, the answer I received was ‘ this is part of ongoing development in future years’ . I suspect this may be the scenario in the supermarket/apartment you speak of.
There again I may be completely wrong, who knows
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Post by dennisn on Mar 25, 2022 18:48:54 GMT
The reason for reinforcement rods sticking out the top of buildings used to be (many years ago and no longer the case) that until a building is finished, no tax is payable. So leave those things sticking up to prove there is more to build. Greeks have a habit, tradition even, of not paying taxes. A more recent one was avoiding the tax on swimming pools by not declaring them. Even to the extent of having disguised covers so that the taxman’s drones and Google maps can’t see them!
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