South China Mall
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South China Mall (simplified Chinese: 华南MALL; pinyin: Huánán MALL) in Dongguan, China is the largest mall in the world.[1] It has leasable space for over 1,500 stores in approximately 6.5 million square feet (600,000 square metres) of total floor area.
The mall has seven zones modeled on international cities, nations and regions, including Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Venice, Egypt, the Caribbean, and California.
Since its opening in 2005, it has suffered from a severe lack of occupants. Much of the retail space remained empty in 2008, with 99.2 percent of the stores vacant.[2] Many analysts[who?] said that the main reason the mall had been largely unoccupied was its location in the suburbs of Dongguan, which means that it was only practical to travel there using a car. The only occupied areas are near the entrance where several Western fast food chains are located and a parking structure repurposed as a kart racing track.
The planned Shangri-La Hotel has not been constructed.
As of 2009, the mall had been renamed the New South China Mall.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ World's 10 Largest Shopping Malls, Forbes.com, January 9, 2007, retrieved July 8, 2007
- ^ Donohue, Michael (2008-06-12). "Mall of misfortune". The National. Abu Dhabi Media Company. http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080612/REVIEW/206990272/1042. Retrieved on 2008-07-17.
- ^ "Upcoming Events at the New South China Mall". http://dg.focus.cn/news/2009-01-15/607227.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-15.
- Matthew Benjamin and Nipa Piboontanasawat, South China Mall a ghost-town experience, Bloomberg News, April 18, 2007.
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Coordinates: 23°2′15″N 113°43′14″E / 23.0375°N 113.72056°E
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