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Someone Built A $200 Million Village Of Disney-Like Castles, Realizes His Mistake When Its Too Late
Its horrifying really, row after row of these castles on tiny lots, no trees, greenery just the little freakish houses.
Hundreds of faux chateaux being built for wealthy Gulf investors have just got their new residents. Ghosts. The Burj Al Babas project in Turkeys northern Bolu province began in 2014, but its developer, the Sarot Group, has failed to come up with the required amount of money for finishing it.
The Sarot Group was recently slapped with a court-ordered bankruptcy ruling over the Burj Al Babas $27 million debt. The project was designed to include 732 chateau-style villas, swimming pools, Turkish baths, health and beauty centers, a shopping center and a mosque, according to its website. And even though customers from Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia have bought around 350 of the 587 villas built, its not enough.
https://www.boredpanda.com/turkey-abandoned-villas-disney-castles/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)"Your own special dream house"
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)...where the surreal sameness is supposed to weird you out.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)And the fact that it is not photoshopped is absolutely mind boggling.
This isn't really from some Turkish version of "The Onion"?????
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Builder of $200 Million Turkish Chateaux Project Goes Bankrupt
By Cagan Koc
November 26, 2018, 9:34 AM CST Updated on November 27, 2018, 12:04 AM CST
Vinca
(50,278 posts)Bettie
(16,110 posts)weird. They are so close together and all exactly alike!
Me.
(35,454 posts)and the waste is unimaginable
Beakybird
(3,333 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Except they aren't even different colors!
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)On this old song...
peggysue2
(10,832 posts)that's certainly hideous. Exactly who would want to live there? Wonder if this group had Trumpski as a consultant?