The Great Shenzhen Landfill Project

So here we are in Shenzhen.  Back in 2003, it was decided to reclaim some land (reclaim form who?) in order to build a nice park for the people.  Out in Deep Bay (near the new bridge).

Fast forward 3 years and it was mostly filled in.

Fast forward 1 year and they dug out a large "lake" so they could have F1 boat racing.

Fast forward some more and there is another lake being dug (as we speak).  Why?  No idea .... looks like for a housing complex.  I guess the idea of a park fell to the building developers.

More apartments you ask?  When in the same are there are Rose Garden I, II, and III?  Peninsula I is built, II is under construction, and III is being started?  And 5-10 other complexes with name I don't know.  And (here's the kicker), 50-75% have been sold and are unoccupied ....

Somewhere there are mother-mountains crying over their children being toppled and used for fill / cement.  As the earth gets flatter .....

I think I have pictures of that landfill somewhere (or maybe it's just another landfill reclaiming land by Shenzhen Bay). It was always surrounded by an army of recycling carts with people sleeping along the roadside.

Yup ... that's the one .... they are digging it out now .... insanity .... fill it in then dig it out ..... but the new roads make it nice to get around nanshan