VENICE. The Fontego dei Tedeschi is back: the former Post Office building reopens as luxury pole and with a new name, Fondaco T: T as "travelers", travelers, the chain of shopping malls after eight years of closure and three construction site, super luxury signed worldwide by DFS Duty Free, which Edizione Holding of the Benetton family - which in 2008 bought the building from the State, in what has been the real estate transaction and restoration which did discuss and divided - he transferred the management of the new commercial lung of the city: 65 designer labels boutiques that run along the floors of the three porches that open onto the courtyard of the building, which has maintained its sixteenth-century structure, though animated by moving bright red stairs climb stairs and sparkling golden glow to go down, with a whole new deck with stunning views of the city from the highest roof. Numbers. The 54 million euro paid in 2012 by the Benetton family through their Edizioni Holding to the State, in a sale that shook the city; 6 millions those given to the City of Venice in exchange for cancellation of public use constraints Building; at least 40 million spent on the rehabilitation and restoration signed by the study Oma star architect Rem Koolhass, a figure in several zeros spending by DFS for the preparation signed Jamie Fobert and the transformation of the Fontego dei Tedeschi in "T Fondaco", where they are hired 450 employees, mostly young people and 70 percent women. Everyone speaks English, many also Chinese, Korean, Japanese. "We expect to get up to speed in a couple of years with an annual turnover of 100 million Euros and about 2 million visitors," said the deputy director DFS, Roberto Meneghesso.
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