The Vacant Mega Mall near Guangzhou

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

Would make a nice case study for the 'Wicked Dumb Business Decisions 101' course at the Wharton School of Business.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5c39VQXGw

[DukeCity]

They need to open a jazz club in it. That would turn the whole thing around!

[Man with the Golden Arm]

always wondered where the Weylu's folks ended up - old stomping grounds, R.?

[Christiern]

Garbo would have loved this mall.

[JSngry]

Not sure if this has been discussed here before or not, but... http://www.deadmalls.com/

If you're old enough, it's pretty chilling reading sometimes...

[Chuck Nessa]

Great link Wheezie. I sent it to all my family.

[Chuck Nessa]

I do want to say many local malls are full of humans, but vacant.

[GA Russell]

I bet the Taiwanese thought it was pretty funny.

[JSngry]

I do want to say many local malls are full of humans, but vacant.

[GA Russell]

By the way, I was in the retail shopping center business on the tenant's side years ago, and it struck me that they never mentioned the rent they are demanding. With only twelve occupancies, it's no wonder you don't see any shoppers.

[Stefan Wood]

My wife and I spent a week in Guangzhou on our final week of our honeymoon. It's a massive city, equal to if not greater than Hong Kong in population and size. We didn't go to this mall, but we went to a few newly built temples that are similar in scale. Amazing architecture; almost no people. There is a lot of overbuilding going on there, and not a lot of people with disposable incomes. Here's a picture from a newly built temple park near the city.

[Dan Gould]

And people wonder whether China might get into trouble with its own real estate bubble.