# Core Pacific City

Songshan District, Taiwan · mall · tier: draft · Retrofit Atlas record `m-aa803ead9f` · release 2026-10-21

Canonical: https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/taiwan/songshan-district-core-pacific-city/  
JSON: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-aa803ead9f.json · Provenance: https://retrofitatlas.org/data/records/m-aa803ead9f.provenance.json · API: https://retrofitatlas.org/api/v1/sites/m-aa803ead9f

## Facts

| Field | Value | Provenance |
|---|---|---|
| Status | demolished | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Opened | 2001 | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |
| Closed | 2019 | documented · model extraction, unreviewed |

## Quoted support

- **year_opened**: “Core Pacific City, also known as the Living Mall (Chinese: 京華城; pinyin: Jīnghuá chéng), was a shopping center in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, that opened in 2001 and closed in 2019.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Pacific_City
- **year_closed**: “Core Pacific City, also known as the Living Mall (Chinese: 京華城; pinyin: Jīnghuá chéng), was a shopping center in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, that opened in 2001 and closed in 2019.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Pacific_City
- **status**: “Core Pacific City closed on 30 November 2019 and was subsequently demolished.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Pacific_City

## Anchors

Mira Department Store

## Parties

- Core Pacific Group — owner (from text) (2001–2018)

## Timeline

- 2001: Opened in 2001.
- 2002: Fire at the mall required evacuation of 20,000 people.
- 2002: Former Core Pacific official Lin Chang-cheng convicted of arson.
- 2018: Core Pacific Group put up the shopping mall for auction.
- 2018: Auction opened to the public with initial price of NT$38 billion.
- 2019: Closed on 30 November 2019.
- 2024: Former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je arrested in relation to corruption allegations surrounding redevelopment of the land.

## Background (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, shortened)

Core Pacific City, also known as the Living Mall, was a shopping center in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, that opened in 2001 and closed in 2019.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Pacific_City

## Sources

- Quoted support for year_opened — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Pacific_City

## Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Core Pacific City, Songshan District, Taiwan." Record m-aa803ead9f, release 2026-10-21, tier draft. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/taiwan/songshan-district-core-pacific-city/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

```bibtex
@misc{retrofitatlas_songshandistrictcorepacificcity,
  title = {Core Pacific City, Songshan District, Taiwan},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/taiwan/songshan-district-core-pacific-city/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-aa803ead9f, release 2026-10-21, tier: draft. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}
```

Licence: research use only; terms undecided with the authors (https://retrofitatlas.org/licence/). Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0. Tiers: curated = from the authors' public map, not reviewed by them; draft = imported or model-extracted, unreviewed.