<story><title>A 61-year-old hotel that has never had a guest</title><url>http://fortune.com/2015/08/11/hotel-italy-no-guests/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>This is just par for the course in China. It is all about money laundering and not real mismanagement, the reasons are all &amp;quot;unclear&amp;quot; because these buildings are not built to be actually used...lots of corners are cuts and pockets are padded. So having an excuse not to open works out, and places the inevitable outrage into the next or next next administration.</text></comment>
<story><title>A 61-year-old hotel that has never had a guest</title><url>http://fortune.com/2015/08/11/hotel-italy-no-guests/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>scurvy</author><text>Reminds me of the Prora, a weird Nazi hotel compound on the Baltic Sea that was never finished: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amusingplanet.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;the-10000-bedroom-nazi-hotel-that-was.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amusingplanet.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;the-10000-bedroom-nazi-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>