Disco Club to Open at Gdansk Shipyard
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Poland’s bankrupt Gdansk shipyard, birthplace of the Solidarity movement that toppled communism in 1989, will host a disco club on its site to earn money. The shipyard, which fell victim to free-market reforms it helped to initiate, has rented one of its six empty production halls to a company that is developing a nightclub there. The yard went bankrupt last year and dismissed almost all of its 7,000-strong work force.
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