Hong Kong’s Billionaire Kwok Brothers Rebuilding Noah’s Ark

by April 18, 2009 2388 Views

noark_constructionHong Kong’s three billionaire Kwok brothers are building a full-scale land-based replica of Noah’s Ark, complete with fiberglass animals. The “vessel” will be 450-feet-long and will feature a luxury rooftop hotel. The message, say the Kwok’s, is that “the financial tsunami will be over.”

The project, which has been in the works for 17 years, was started recently due to the unique “marketing hook” that the present financial crisis provides.

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by C. S. Magor - Apr 18, 2009

by C. S. Magor - Apr 18, 2009

C.S. Magor is the editor-in-chief and a reporter at large for We Interrupt and Uberreview. He currently resides in the Japanese countryside approximately two hours from Tokyo - where he has spent the better part of a decade testing his hypothesis that Japan is neither as quirky nor as interesting as others would have you believe.
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