Spent the evening at the Metreon tonight. Sure it looks nice from this angle, but in reality, it's only a shell of what it was originally planned to be.
Built in 1999, it was the first of many proposed entertainment centers that touted the latest technologies, hip restaurants and state of the art movie theatres that would be financed by Sony. And for a while, it seemed like a good idea, since big name techie shops were housed there, such as the Microsoft Store, the Discovery Channel Store, and the Playstation Store.
But with that early decade economic crash, the center failed to turn a profit, all the hip stores and restaurants began closing down and in 2006 Sony sold the rights to the property. A few years later, the Playstation store closed, ending any Sony affiliation with the Metreon, and today, all that's left of the multimedia center that could've been are some cheap mall stands and vacant spaces.
On a slightly related note, according to wikipedia, the Metreon "has been the scene of a number of well-publicized shootings. Four people are known to have been shot at the Metreon."
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