A $100 billion ‘eco-friendly’ Forest City that was supposed to be home to a million people is nothing but a ghost town now.
Situated on the coast of Singapore, the so-called “Forest City” was launched in 2016, to much fanfare.
However, it has now been left to rot with vegetation taking over buildings.
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Although built in Singapore, the mega-city project Forest City is a Chinese initiative.
The plan was to build a $100 billion coastal city designed to house up to a million people.
However, it has now turned into a ghost town full of stray dogs, overgrown vegetation, day drinkers, and crocodile-infested waters.
Let’s just hope China’s other projects like the floating city with underwater streets, don’t share the same fate as this one.
According to its website, it was supposed to be an eco-friendly city with a golf course, water park, restaurants, and many other things.
Unfortunately, only about 15 percent of Forest City has been built with around one percent occupancy, another reason why it’s a ghost town.
Despite being marketed as ‘eco-friendly’, Forest City has been widely criticized for causing large amounts of environmental damage.
It has caused irreversible damage due to the reclamation of ecologically sensitive coastal wetlands.
This is a common story in most mega-city projects, even including Saudi Arabia’s NEOM city and ‘The Line’.
If you want to check out some more amazing cities, take a look at South Korea’s Floating City or China’s Ice and Snow City.
So, how did it come to this? How did this Forest city turn into a ghost town?
The properties in the Forest City were too expensive for most of the people living there as it was aimed at selling properties in Malaysia to Chinese buyers.
However, due to the pandemic and Chinese foreign spending laws, not many people bought the properties.
Plus, no one wants to buy flats, which have been built in the middle of nowhere.
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