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Hotel planned for rail station

(Shanghai Daily )
Updated: 2006-10-25 10:07


Shanghai plans to build a massive complex containing at least one hotel,
as well as numerous shops and entertainment facilities near the recently
opened Shanghai South Railway Station, a government official said
yesterday.

The complex, which will be built just northeast of the station and linked
to it by an underground tunnel, is expected to be completed by 2010.
Officials say they want to avoid the mistakes they made in setting up
business facilities near the Shanghai Railway Station, where poor
planning has left the area around the station a congested mess.

"We want to do much much better than we did near the Shanghai Railway
Station," Shen Rende, an official of the Shanghai Urban Planning
Administrative Bureau, told Shanghai Daily yesterday.

The complex will cover 2.77 square kilometers - the equivalent of about
400 soccer pitches placed side by side - along Liuzhou Road to the east
and Shilong Road to the south, officials said.

A preliminary plan of the area will be completed this year and the
project is expected to take more than three years to complete, Shen said.

He said the total cost of the project hasn't been set yet, but the
complex will incorporate hotels, stores, conference halls, spas,
restaurants and other entertainment facilities.

The area will also include logistics and staff training facilities for
railway operators, Shen said.

"When completed, it might take some five minutes to walk from hotels to
the station through the underground passage," Shen said.

The railway station, which opened in June, will eventually be linked to
an expanded version of the city's maglev line.

By the time the World Expo 2010 opens in the city, the maglev is expected
to run from the Pudong International Airport to a station at the Expo
site, and then onto the railway station. It will eventually be expanded
from the railway station to Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province.

"Visitors to the Expo site can stay in the new complex and take the
maglev to visit the Expo in 2010," Shen said.

The Expo is expected to attract 70 million visitors over six months.















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