Meet China’s Largest Empty Building – The Ghost ‘Pentagon’

Meet China’s Largest Empty Building – The Ghost ‘Pentagon’


Zero Hedge
January 25, 2016


While China’s ghost cities are now a well-known occurrence – massive empty spaces built “Fields of Dream” style for when ‘they’ come from the countryside – the following massive 500,000 square meters of ‘Ghost Pentagon’ surely takes the proverbial biscuit when it comes to mal-investment mania. As The BBC reports, the Pentagonal Mart – a shopping mall in Shanghai built in 2009 – inspired by the Pentagon in the United States – has now gained the dubious title of China’s largest empty building.

And from the inside out, the 70-acre site – only slightly smaller than the largest shopping mall in the world, the Dubai Mall in the United Arab Emirates – is almost entirely vacant…