Similar to other shopping malls (for example, Fünf Höfe, Stachus-Passage or Kaufingertor-Passage), it is close to the central Munich intercity junctions between Marienplatz and Sendlinger Tor.

The three-armed shopping mall connects Marcel Meili's new building, completed in 2013, with a partly protected historical portion.

A central point is the "Lichthof", which owes its name to a glass dome, which had covered the printing building of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

With the shopping mall, apartments were also built on the property, but in separate buildings on Hofstatt street and the corner of Färbergraben.

[2] The originally planned completion date at the end of 2010 could not be sustained, among other things, due to the elimination of contaminated sites (residues of the former printers of the Süddeutsche newspaper) and financing questions.