Can Hong Kong airport’s Terminal 2 take off as 11 Skies, rivals pose challenges?

Inside a massive retail and office complex called 11 Skies next to Hong Kong International Airport, all 800 shops sit vacant and only two of 120 food outlets were open earlier this month.They were supposed to begin operating in the 3.8 million sq ft development – equivalent in size to about 53 football pitches – by last year. A recent South China Morning Post visit to 11 Skies found it largely empty, with areas cordoned off and store spaces boarded up with hoardings featuring adverts for the wider airport megaproject, Skytopia.Few lights were turned on, adding to the eerie atmosphere, and the handful of people present were mostly travellers trundling through the empty corridors with luggage on their way to a nearby hotel. At a coffee shop catering mainly to office workers, business was slow.