As the interest of foreign developers in the China property market intensifies, Hangzhou yesterday announced the addition of three leading US players to a large shopping centre project in the city.
An official of the city's West Lake District Foreign Trade & Investment Bureau said that Kravco Simon Co, Morgan Stanley and Time-Warner would join Wal-Mart in a giant shopping centre in a new residential area west of the city.
It will have 70,000 square metres of space, with building due to start this month and be completed by early 2007.
Wal-Mart will take the second, third and half of the fourth floor while Kravco Simon will open a luxury product department store and Time-Warner a cinema complex on the rest of the fourth floor.
Morgan Stanley will invest US$100 million in the project, the official said, although he did not elaborate.
Officials of the four US companies were not immediately available for comment.