Pozi Street used to be a famous street in the whole province. From the north gate suspension bridge in the south to Xibakou in the north. It is less than a mile long and only a few feet wide. Shop assistants on both sides can talk across the street. "Speaking of Pozi Street, one of the residents who is nearly eighty years old explained. The formation of Pozi Street benefited from two projects. In the 25th year of Yuan Dynasty (1365), the Jichuan River, which was directly connected to the Yangtze River, was dug. In the 25th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1392), a river dam was built outside the north gate to block the flow of the upper and lower rivers. After the completion of the dam, the east-west dam mouth and the section along the Beicheng River will become salt transshipment centers, and grain shops, oil mills and board houses will be set up on both sides of the river to form a narrow north-south ramp, namely Pozi Street. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Pozi Street has become a busy city with merchants and a distribution center for agricultural products. The nearly 500-meter-long street accommodates more than 100 shops, including silk shops, department stores, hardware stores, pharmacies, banks, jewelry stores, restaurants, tobacco and liquor stores, paper shops, bathrooms, etc., which is a bustling scene and is famous in Jianghuai. One of the elderly people said: "Tianfu Cloth Shop, Jiuzhuzhai, Yimei Sauce Garden, Dexinyuan Pharmacy, Luyulou Tea House and other old brands are very famous. There is nothing you can't buy or taste in Pozi Street. "It is understood that the retail sales of goods in Pozi Street once accounted for 90% of the retail sales of goods in urban areas. Nine times out of ten, a century-old shop in Taizhou made its fortune in Pozi Street. In this 600-year-old street, countless wealth legends have been staged. After the reform and opening up, this splendid old street has become more and more quiet. Except for Zhongbaiyi Store, which still stands tall and maintains the dignity of Pozi Street in that year, most of the other old brands have lost their scenery and just changed careers. Pozi Street has become a veritable old street with narrow streets, scattered commercial points and similar business models. Tang Weiguo, vice president of Taizhou Branch of Jiangsu Academy of Social Sciences, said: "Traditional formats have been difficult to meet the needs of new consumption such as leisure consumption and experiential consumption. This is the main reason for the decline in the charm of Pozi Street. "As a prefecture-level city with a population of 5 million, Taizhou undoubtedly needs a modern commercial center that can gather people, logistics and capital flows. Although Taizhou has built new districts and many spacious and beautiful new streets in recent years, Pozi Street is still irreplaceable in the minds of many Taizhou people. Resident Mr. Wang said: "When it comes to commercial centers, Xibakou and Pozi Street are recognized by old Taizhou. When I was a child, I always followed adults to buy clothes and new year's goods in this street. At that time, I felt that there was no bigger shopping mall than Zhongbaiyi Store. And the vice president. As soon as the Chinese New Year arrives, how many days in advance will the store start to collect money? I am very impressed. "It is understood that this renovation is the largest in the history of Pozi Street. Because it is located in the golden section of the old city, with many shops and dense residential buildings, the demolition work has been going on for more than two years. The powerful driving force of the project is the expectation of continuing the 600-year-old business myth. Gao Jianguo, general manager of Baojiang Real Estate Co., Ltd. said: "The scattered commercial land has failed to form more effective cohesion, which is one of the reasons why the radiation capacity of Pozi Street is not strong enough. Xinpozi Street will form a new business circle with Pozi Street Commercial Center and Zhongbaiyidian as the core, which has strong gathering power and radiation power. "According to industry analysts, psychologically, as a landmark of Taizhou, Pozi Street has a history of more than 600 years and a history of commercial prosperity of 100 years. It is very popular because of its profound business culture and extraordinary sense of identity in the hearts of citizens. After the land demolition, the traffic around Pozi Street is still above 25,000 people per hour. Geographically, the future Pozi Street Commercial Center is adjacent to Zhongbaiyidian in the north, Xinmin Street in the west, Taishan Shopping Plaza in the south and Donghe Road in the east. The surrounding infrastructure is perfect, the business format is complete and the business atmosphere is strong. These are all favorable conditions for forming a new business circle. For the future business center, consumers have already had expectations. Zhang Hua, a resident living near Pozi Street, said that the commercial radiation of Hailing District to the surrounding urban areas is not obvious, mainly because there is a big shopping mall in the east and one in the west. Look at Nanjing Road in nanjing xinjiekou and Shanghai. There is a big shopping mall next to it, forming a golden business circle with great influence and radiation. Teacher Li, a kindergarten teacher who likes shopping, said that the living standard of Taizhou people is not low, but there are relatively few choices of women's clothes. Many of her friends would rather use their holidays to buy clothes in other places. She hopes that the future Pozi Street commercial center can launch more high-end clothes, so as to avoid running around to buy clothes. The transformation of an ancient commercial street with a regional symbol of more than 600 years has attracted the attention of many citizens. According to the reporter's understanding, the reconstructed Pozi Street Commercial Center is a modern style direction. According to people in the industry, there should be no need to mix two things that lack * * * in architectural style, because it will be neither fish nor fowl if it is not done well. The inheritance of history and culture should have the characteristics of the times, and can't stay in the blind imitation of historical traces. According to reports, a part of the nearly 500-meter-long Laopozi Street will be hidden in the "Chinese"-shaped commercial center building community, becoming two main street passages with a width of 12.5 meters and a length of nearly 200 meters between the north and south glass main buildings. Another part of Pozi Street is integrated with Yuecheng Square. The developer said that although the external manifestations are different, the geographical location is still on the front line of the original Pozi Street. Pozi Street is no longer a simple street concept, but a regional symbol that is getting closer and closer to the macro. According to Chen Xuehua, deputy general manager of Baojiang Real Estate, at first, they envisaged to provide a relatively concentrated shop area for Laopozi Street, leaving a nostalgic space for the elderly in Taizhou. However, some time-honored brands can't wait for the construction period of Pozi Street, and some industries, such as cloth shops, bathrooms, hotels and so on. It has been difficult to connect with the modern consumption pattern, making this plan impossible to realize. It is reported that among many centuries-old brands in Pozi Street, Dexinyuan Pharmacy has preempted to settle in the commercial center of Pozi Street, and several old brands are in further contact. On the cultural core, the developer said that the whole design embodies a kind of leisure culture close to nature and returning to nature, close to the cultural atmosphere of Taizhou citizens. For example, in the "mouth" structure of the inner street, there is a rain-proof and wind-proof glass roof corridor, and each floor of the three-story shopping street has a completely open landscape corridor, which allows tourists to linger, have a rest and enjoy the scenery of Hecheng and Yuecheng Square. Four characteristics of Pozi Street Commercial Center The super-large Pozi Street Commercial Center is east to Donghe Road, west to Xinmin Street, south to Yuecheng Square and north to Jindong Road, with a total construction area of over 6.5438+0.7 million square meters and an underground supporting project of 39,000 square meters. It can be called the "aircraft carrier" of Taizhou and even Jiangsu. Super-large scale can be the core of gathering popularity, merchants and wealth. The transformation of "one-stop" shopping Pozi Street is not only a trade-in of old buildings, but also an upgrade of business philosophy. Adopting the internationally popular "shopping center" design concept, integrating shopping, leisure, entertainment, catering, office and residence, Taizhou citizens can truly realize "one-stop" consumption for the first time, that is, they can complete their own consumption in one place. Buy whatever you want, play whatever you want, eat whatever you want, and watch whatever you want. Pozi Street Commercial Center, a three-dimensional pedestrian street, skillfully combines discovery consumption with purposeful consumption, creating a huge fresh and pleasant shopping space. The shops on the first and second floors are integrated by a double-deck pedestrian system, and the shopping passage is very convenient. Stairs, more than 40 brand elevators, escalators and sightseeing ladders are available for people to enter and leave freely. Shoppers can see three-dimensional shops in outdoor, pedestrian street or atrium square, which fully stimulates their consumption desire and allows shoppers to enjoy the fun of exploration and discovery. The giant parking lot Pozi Street Commercial Center has planned a large parking lot with an underground area of about 20,000 square meters, which is currently the largest underground garage in Taizhou. It can park more than 400 motor vehicles at the same time and 70 temporary parking spaces on the ground. This indicator has fully considered the future development of Taizhou, leaving enough room. In addition, more than 8,800 bicycles can be parked underground and on the ground. The parking index per unit commercial area has surpassed the well-known domestic commercial streets such as Wangfujing in Beijing and Nanjing Road in Shanghai. In the future, whether you come to Pozi Street Commercial Center for shopping or live here, there will be no problem of parking difficulties. Legend has it that there was a child prodigy named Chu Xu in Taizhou during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty. He began to read poetry at the age of five or six, and he was able to write a good article at the age of eight or nine, which surprised all his neighbors. Only when he was a minor, his parents died one after another. In order to make a living, Chuchu had to sell herself as a slave and work as a newsboy for a local college student named Huang. In the Huang family, he taught himself secretly and read a lot of books, and his literary talent became more and more obvious. He is very good at writing poems and couplets. Finally, at the age of 27, he won the title of Xie Yuan after having obtained the provincial examination. The next year, he went to Beijing to take the exam of the Ministry of Rites and won the title of Huiyuan. Later, he joined palace examination, ranking first among the second-class scholars, and entered the official career. During the Jiajing period, in order to show off the talents in their hometown, people chose the most prosperous area in Taizhou at that time and built two street-crossing archways for Chu Fuma, one called "Xie Yuan" and the other called "Huiyuan". Because there is a ramp hundreds of meters long on that road, it is called "binary slope". During Daoguang and Xianfeng years in Qing Dynasty, the two archways were accidentally swallowed up by fire, so people simply removed the "duality" from the "antithesis slope" and added the word "street" behind it, which was called "Pozi Street". Since then, the street name of this "Pozi Street" has become louder and louder and has been passed down to this day.