Built-established retailers worried about their future. The Green Mayor Fritz Kuhn, not long in office, found clear words ("... would not have created so many new faces"): but without show off his predecessors, who ignored requests from the Council years ago, investors no concessions in terms of car parking spaces (1700 instead of "only" 1300 now) to make.

Service Senior councilors now take the opening of the Stuttgart spending spree paradises as an opportunity to wash as co-decision makers hands in innocence and symbolically simulating contrition. "Gerber and Milaneo: nobody wants to have decided it," wrote the Stuttgarter Zeitung end of September. The article recapped the chronology of the Council's decisions about the year 2010, assorted supporters and opponents of the projects by political group, provided an update comments. When FDP parliamentary leader Bernd Klingler outweighed "regret". From CDU stated, "with the knowledge and the experience of the past years so one would not aufsiedeln the A-1 area at the station". The newspaper was also the Schultes a neighboring town - a trained architect and master builder - have their say: Esslingen OB Jürgen Zieger presented the problems of the new temples of consumerism even in the context of spatial planning and regional policy and criticized the role of the state capital: you have never in the service found in the region, primarily pursues its own interests and now opens up a "pitched battle" in retail. It was particularly irritating that it "will have been even more no one who approved all this" in Stuttgart at the political level now.