China really wants a piece of the winter sports pie it seems. After yesterday's announcement of a possible acquisition of Amer Sports by a Chinese constortium, it emerges that KOP Properties is building the world's largest indoor ski resort in Shanghai.
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According to KOP's site, the Wintastar resort will span "approximately 245,000 ft2, providing residents and visitors with year-round access to the world’s largest indoor Ski & Snow Park that will span 97,000 ft2 sqm, featuring a combination of three ski slopes of varying gradients including a slope of Olympics standard for training." There's also plenty of other onsite facilities included in the package, so it's safe to say that if you go for a visit and mom doesn't ski, she'll still have a good time.
The resort theme will be modeled after the Alps. Does that mean we will have some castle-esque park features like this from LTC? Fingers crossed.
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If they're including "a slope of Olympics standard for training", that must mean a park is included, right? Wintastar isn't opening until 2022, just in time for the Winter Olympics in China that year, so hopefully a dope park is in the works.
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