Longemont (, literally: 'Dragon's Dream', also known as Cloud Nine Shopping Mall or Shanghai Summit Shopping City) is a 60-floor, tall

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with a

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at its base, and offices and Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel as its main body, completed in 2006 and located in

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Overview

The building is primarily a shopping mall at the lower levels. The mall is home to many multinational retailers such as

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, C&A, and

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, and is also connected to a Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan Park Hotel. At night the skyscraper is lit by floodlights attached to the outside walls. Longemont is located in western Shanghai, near

Zhongshan Park Zhongshan Park () is a common name for Chinese parks, in honour of Sun Yat-sen, better-known in Chinese as Sun Zhongshan, who is considered by many to be the " Father of modern China". Currently there are more than 40 Zhongshan Parks in China, and ...

. The park itself is just to the north and to the north of that is

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. An accident with an escalator in August 2015 resulted in the amputation of a man's leg.

Transport

The skyscraper is immediately northeast of the Zhongshan Park Station on

Shanghai Metro Line 2 Line 2 is an east–west line in the Shanghai Metro network. With a length of nearly , it is the second longest line in the metro system after line 11. Line 2 runs from National Exhibition and Convention Center in the west to in the east, passi ...

, Line 3, and Line 4. It can be seen from Lines 3 and 4, which are elevated at this point.

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