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Guangzhou Football Park
Guangzhou Football Park is a football stadium under construction in Guangzhou, China. The construction of the 12 billion yuan (US$1.7 billion) stadium began on 16 April 2020.[1] The design of the lotus-shaped stadium was that of Shanghai-based American architect Hasan Syed.[2] The stadium would have had a seating capacity for 100,000 people and was planned to open in December 2022.[1][3] In September 2021, the Evergrande Group said that the construction of the stadium would still proceed despite the company's liquidity crisis.[4] In November 2021, the stadium was seized by the Chinese government with plans to sell the incomplete stadium to another company or transfer ownership to the state-owned Guangzhou City Construction Investment Group. At that time construction of the stadium was reportedly halted for at least three months already, contradicting Evergrande's earlier statement.[5] In mid-2022, due to the Chinese property sector crisis sparked by the Evergrande Group, it was assumed that the project was cancelled.[6] In March 2024, the Guangzhou City Construction Investment Group handed the site to China Construction Fourth Engineering Division, a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering, to continue construction. The stadium would be redesigned by the Guangdong Architectural Design and Research Institute to a design revealed in September 2023, which saw the loss of the lotus design and a reduction in capacity to 74,707.[7] References
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