Sam Crispin's bullish reports on Pudong a decade ago made the property analyst a contrarian.
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FedEx said it will be capable of handling 36, 000 parcels and documents per hour at Pudong.
Other landmark stores have been installed in Paris and the Pudong district of Shanghai.
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Mr. Crispin argues that the lesson of Pudong is how badly Chinese demand was underestimated.
WSJ: Shanghai's Pudong District Goes From Soulless to Sizzling
Despite regulatory problems, it provides a nationwide service from Pudong, largely to multinational clients.
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Chinese policy makers' build-it-and-they-will-come approach has worked in some cases, most prominently in Shanghai's bustling Pudong district.
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, Bank of Beijing, and Industrial Bank all reported stellar Q3 numbers.
For those looking for more space, areas of Pudong across the river are popular, especially near Century Park.
But Ms. Yao now owns a modern riverside apartment in Pudong and marvels at its affordability compared with London.
WSJ: Shanghai's Pudong District Goes From Soulless to Sizzling
Pudong's passenger and cargo traffic grew 27% in 2010, to 40.6 million passengers.
The number of homes on the market rose 30% in Pudong New Area, a high-end waterfront district in Shanghai.
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The hotel is in the tower-filled Pudong area, across the Huangpu River from the famous Bund, in the Lujiazu business district.
In addition, a new portion of the Middle Ring Road was constructed, reducing travel time to the Pudong Airport by 20 minutes.
Only six flights out of the 39 daily departures from Shanghai Pudong International Airport to Japan were canceled over the past 48 hours.
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In China, the new Four Seasons Pudong in Shanghai has two spa suites (with heated floors, an infinity-edged soaking bathtub, sauna and steam room).
Ms. Yao made one of her first visits to Pudong in 1994 to check a client's plan to rent restaurant space atop the yet-uncompleted Pearl Tower.
WSJ: Shanghai's Pudong District Goes From Soulless to Sizzling
The officially sponsored visit failed to take in many of the old Jewish sites, but did include a tour of Pudong and a pitch for investment.
The red brick and stone, the smoke and soot, and the sounds and smells of Old Shanghai provide sharp relief to the shiny new Pudong financial centre across the river.
Also arriving were tenants like the trade-development office of Changzhou, a Chinese city that uses Pudong "like a bridge" to engage foreign investors, says its director Thomas Zhang.
WSJ: Shanghai's Pudong District Goes From Soulless to Sizzling
Many of the players made the trip to Shanghai in May this year for the BMW Asian Open won by Miguel Angel Jimenez at Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club.
The Blackstone Group also has a RMB private equity fund in the works, with the Pudong government and earmarked to make investments in this Shanghai financial and shipping center.
Major domestic airlines have based 80 percent of their freight capacities at the Pudong airport, which now ranks No. 3 by cargo turnover, after Hong Kong and Memphis, Tennessee.
Apple Inc. chose Pudong for its first Shanghai store.
WSJ: Shanghai's Pudong District Goes From Soulless to Sizzling
Citigroup Inc. and HSBC Holdings PLC own Pudong towers.
WSJ: Shanghai's Pudong District Goes From Soulless to Sizzling
Others head to the top-floor deck, where small private dining rooms offer views over the river to the neon lights of Pudong, punctuated by the two-globes-on-a-stick TV Tower, the symbol of modern Shanghai.
In Shanghai, where it was gathering for the fourth time, there still were plenty of family touches--at least a dozen of the brood were there to greet the clientele at the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel.
"You came to see they actually did what they said, " says Stephen White, managing director of iaction, an architectural firm that initially built Pudong offices for international banks but now sees mostly Chinese take-up.
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The 390-room, four-star hotel -- which opened in May 2011, is located in the booming suburb of Kangqiao, which is some 22 kilometers southeast from Shanghai downtown and 30 kilometers west of Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
Initially, Pudong drew snickers faster than tenants.
WSJ: Shanghai's Pudong District Goes From Soulless to Sizzling
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