 Today not a very exciting video walking here on a general pier Kenning Street in Talpiyot There's a huge construction site going on over here actually huge huge pit in the ground I'm not exactly sure what they're building Talpiyot literally means turrets in Hebrew and this is one of the more Industrial neighborhoods here in Jerusalem. It's a very grainy gray winters day on the left We have radio Jerusalem 101 FM Anyway, Talpiyot is best known as a land of Industry, there's a lot of a kind of place in Jerusalem where you find a lot of specialist stores. I just was at a cycling store You'll find also building supply places wood supplier stuff like that over here. It's not very glamorous And this is its kind of commercial center here What's in front of me on the left is Canyon Hadar, which means Hadar Mall in English They just actually inaugurated it in the news today a new level to the shopping center I think it's already four level size. They're building a fifth and Some falafel and chourma here on my left and the reason I'm making this video is as Hopefully it's coming across Talpiyot. It's not exactly a Probably not gonna win any contest to the world's most beautiful neighborhood It all looks a bit like this. It really sprawls down onto Oman Street this kind of gray Lots and lots of hardware stores that kind of thing But the there's been a plan for a long time to develop Talpiyot Something more exciting as a commercial center for Jerusalem. If you read the Wikipedia page for this place You would be deceived Into believing that it's already that it's not really because This is kind of the only commercial institution really or you know recreational Hadar Mall and then it itself closes quite early and It says, you know, there's a lot this neighborhood is heaving with bars and nightlife, which is just not true. There is like one bar one club in Talpiyot One in the bowling ball. That's pretty much it So it's not what Wikipedia says it is Which is always when you're reading these things you have to be a bit skeptical sometimes if you don't live in a place but this Talpiyot does have potential and I believe it's got enormous potential because there's a big catchment Living in this part of Jerusalem and Jerusalem's city center is kind of underwhelming. That's the area clustered around Ben Yehuda Street, which I've made some videos of before and This is definitely a big space and there's a lot more that could be done with it. It could be Renovated you can see it's a rainy winter's day here. This is Shufrasal, which is one of the main shopping center chain in Israel and This is Max Doc, which is a kind of I guess for Americans would probably compare it most closely to Target and if a discount store This is one of their new new branches. Anyway, Talpiyot definitely has potential and It's in the plans to develop this into a second urban center Jerusalem a southern urban center I think that would be wonderful for the city and for people living in this part of it