chimney with weathered crimson bricks

Coming to the outskirts of Lille, I found the chimney of the old fabric factory rising into the sky, covered with weathered crimson bricks. I heard the factory was closed a long time ago, maybe for decades, hardly used for any business for a while. Then, when the town-council, some businessmen and developers somehow found and agreed with its potential, it was re-constructed or re-developed as a middle sized outlet-shopping mall, while being preserved it's old fashioned facade with the symbolic sky-high chimney. It was a decade ago, and on its grand opening day when the factory-mall was officially given a new life, I could imagine that a crowd of people around here were coming, walking and shopping like kids as if entering their dreamland for the first time in life.
 
Just several years later, I found people in here actually preferring to walk and window-shopping more slowly than used to be. As a consequence, several tenants had already closed its stores, and never comes new ones. Still the sky high chimney was there, and I could see it from my car window, while driving for a while to go home.

Here was the outskirts of Lille, France