China opens city-sized shopping mall, with fake sun

[Plutonic Panda]

Let's get something like this built here in OKC!!!!!!(in downtown of course ). Seriously though, what has a better chance of being built, this or the Turbinomics Tower.

This thing is awesome though, even though it isn't authentic. . . "If you don't care about authenticity, the New Century Global Center has everything you could want, including an artificial Mediterranean village.".


(mind no attention to the smog in backdrop)



"Built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, that august structure was only 22 acres large but was preserved in various forms for some 85 years. With China's frenetic pace of growth, one wonders if the New Century Global Center will last for even 10."

Well, I still think it's cool. Read more here:China opens city-sized shopping mall, with fake sun | Crave - CNET

[Mel]

Only a 14 screen theater. That seems chintzy.

[OKCisOK4me]

Only a 14 screen theater. That seems chintzy.

Yeah, and a 14 screen theater in China is really a 8 screen theater in the US...

[Bunty]

But it's built for a city of 14 million people. That's too big even for Texas.

[Plutonic Panda]

Yeah but looking at pictures of this, it would be neat to see something like this replicated into Core2Shore. Maybe do something like Epcot, but make a hybrid between Epcot, This thing in China, and lifestyle development in Ohio. . . that would be awesome!!!!

[ljbab728]

Uh no, Plupan. That's much too massive for anything we would want or support. We don't need a theme park downtown so we'll just leave that to China for now.

[Plutonic Panda]

Well, I don't mean a theme park. I meant add something like the Epcot Expo Center and do "themed" shopping areas around it. That would be huge attraction and great for the city.

[ljbab728]

Well not in the Core to Shore area. Except for the park, I see that as being mainly for the local or nearby residents.