In the 1930s, Vlada Mitic, one of the richest people in pre-war Belgrade, bought some land on the Slavija square to build the biggest department store in the Balkans. World War II halts this project. After the war the communist government imprisoned Mr. Mitic and confiscated all his property, including his plots of land on Slavija.
Accidentally or not, between 1946. and 1980. there were 26 attempts to start works on different buildings but they all failed. Among the last and most famous attempts was the one in the early nineties when the then Dafiment Bank management bought that part of Slavija to build a huge supermarket. After this failed, there was a depo there for a few years. At the beginning of 21st century and when the Slavija Square got its old name back, a park was built there.
Due to a number of failures regarding the building projects at this place, a Belgrade legend of “the curse of the Mitic’s hole“ was born.