South China Mall , build up in Dongguan and more than twice as orotund as Minnesota ’s Mall of America , was completed in 2005 . Today , it sits almost completely empty . It is , by any account , the creation ’s largestghost mall .
It ’s not gruelling to guess what happen here : many of China ’s overzealous building projection over the last decade — including hotels , amusement parks and near - overnight sumptuousness home developments — were probably untenable even if the worldwide economic crisis had n’t happened . And since it did , they ’re truly , profoundly , and wholly screwed . PBS did what nobody in China seems to be doing , and in reality went there :
There ’s still a sad little skeleton crowd rolling around the premise in golf go-cart and a few line of work — mostly food chains , it seems — are up and runnng , but of the 1500 rentable space scatter out over 7 million square feet , about 99 % sit empty . And as if the dateless shot of sparsely scored , post - apocalyptic retail ruins do n’t convey enough of a sense of despair and failure , here ’s the last news story posted on theirEnglish linguistic communication website :
Located at Dongguan South China Mall , the first Teletubbies Edutaiment Centre will be overt with a grand opening night ceremony hold on February 24 , 2006 . representative from BBC Worldwide、Ragdoll Limited , Impact Licensing Marking Management Consulting Co. ,Ltd . will be attending the opening ceremony .
More than burnt hair , rotting physique and methanal , that , folks , is the feeling of death . [ PBSviaMetafilter — Picvia ]
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