New South China Mall

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One of approximately 1000 vacant retail spaces in the South China Mall

The South China Mall is a shopping mall north of Hong Kong in Dongguan , People's Republic of China .

With around 1,500 shops on 660,000 square meters of retail space, the South China Mall is currently the second largest shopping center in the world. It opened in 2005 and has theme parks, a 553 m roller coaster, an IMAX cinema, a hotel complex and a full-size replica of the Arc de Triomphe . The cost of construction came to around 1.1 billion euros.

The second shopping center has suffered from an extreme shortage of customers and the resulting high vacancy rate since it opened. The South China Mall is seen as one of the biggest bad plans of our time. According to media reports, the vacancy rate in 2011 was 99%. As a result, the shopping center can be assigned to the “ Dead Mall ” category.

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  2. ↑ Tom Van Riper: World's 10 Largest Shopping Malls . In: Forbes . January 9, 2007 ( forbes.com [accessed February 19, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Catherine Price: Nauseous: The World's Nastiest Travel Destinations , No. 63, The New South China Mall.
  4. ↑ Mall fever in China makes the temple of consumption grow gigantically: - WORLD. Retrieved February 19, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Investors fear the great China collapse . The world. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  6. ^ The South China Mall of misfortune . The National.
  7. ↑ New South China Mall: Too big to fail - Video - Domus. Retrieved February 19, 2017 (it-IT).

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