dreams – A Future Dome we have never heard from
 
Sometimes important news about Shanghai arrives through my friends in the Netherlands. Papers over there have published about the so-called “Future Dome”, a 2 billion US dollar sporting complex that is going to be build here in Shanghai. A Dutch entrepreneur Karel Aalberts, who used to be involved with the soccer club Vitesse and has been responsible for a rather disastrous megaproject in the Netherlands, is pushing the project.
Main problem: I had never, ever heard about what is called a pet-project of the Shanghai government. And nobody has. Articles in Dutch media say ‘the’ government has already given permission. What government? Shanghai or Beijing? I guess that it will be very hard to get any approval from the central government now it wants to cool down the economy. Looks like a nice China dream. Seems all very unlikely.