A complex containing at least one hotel, as well as numerous shops and entertainment facilities will open in Shanghai near the recently opened Shanghai South Railway Station. According to the Shanghai Daily News 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.
The complex will cover 2.77sq km along Liuzhou Road to the east and Shilong Road to the south. A preliminary plan of the area will be completed this year. The total cost of the project hasn't been finalised but it will incorporate hotels, stores, conference halls, spas, restaurants and other entertainment facilities. " 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.