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UPDATED: Sunday, November 1, 2009 09:22
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Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:45 PM

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South China Mall coming to a town near you
www.thenational.ae/article/20080612/REVIEW/206990272/1042

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Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall

Is nothing American sacred anymore? The largest mall in the world turns out not to be the famous Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. It’s the South China Mall outside of Guangzhou, China. Outdoing the techniques of American consumerism, South China Mall is Disneyland, Las Vegas and Mall of America rolled into one. There are carnival rides, mini-parks, canals and lakes amid classic Western-style buildings with space for hundreds of shops.

But along with the glitz and glory of middle-class shopping, the mall’s Chinese developers seem to have imported something else — a cautionary tale of capitalist hubris. Alex Hu, a local Guangzhou boy who made it big in international business, wanted South China Mall to be a hometown monument to his success — even though Guangzhou has no major airports or highways nearby. And four years after its construction, the mall sits virtually empty of both shops and shoppers. But the Chinese have imported yet another concept familiar to Americans — South China Mall is considered too big to fail. So, employees line up for flag-raising ceremonies and pep talks about “brand building” before going off to maintain the deserted concourses meticulously. If China is the future of the world economy, Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall just may be a startling peek at what’s to come.

http://www.pbs.org/pov/utopia/















Commie China has no problem with ghost malls full of trademark piracy:



But download an MP3 from Limewire and Obama's DOJ will sue you for $1.5-million.

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Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:19 PM

DREAMTROVE


Interesting, but not surprising, as the city is 100 times the size. Actually, it's larger than the greater Chicagoland metropolitan area, (3x the size of the city itself.)

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Sunday, November 1, 2009 1:11 AM

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Our malls have sheeple walking around, but few are buying. I haven't been to one in 10 years.

Our sheriff confessed to stealing cars from the mall with a convicted copkiller towtrucker. Now he's running for mayor, after his $17-million bank robbery from his bankrupt car dealership. County has billion$ in CAFR "pension" funds ripe for the pickens.

Our malls are reportedly owned by convicted mobsters. A female reporter for that magazine wound up swimming with the fishes 30 days after that coverstory. It was wintrytime...

Not until the crack balloon pops will our malls shut down.

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Sunday, November 1, 2009 6:17 AM

DREAMTROVE


The Chinese pre-build. It looks eerie for a year, but in a year it will be full of people. They're not alone, they do this in Kentucky, too, or did when I lived there.

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Sunday, November 1, 2009 9:22 AM

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
The Chinese pre-build. It looks eerie for a year, but in a year it will be full of people. They're not alone, they do this in Kentucky, too, or did when I lived there.



I've heard that the ghost of Michael Jackson pre-shops in that Chinese ghost-mall...

Hey , we have a ghost-mall near my place...It's only half-built , the other half is mostly abandoned , but for a couple of 'anchor' stores and a couple of boutiques...

A few days ago , some crack-heads were stealing rebar and other metals from the uncompleted side of the site , then the deputies showed up from 3 directions at once , and hilarity ensued !

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