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NanShan Plaza and a company strike

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Things are progressing rapidly at the Nanshan plaza construction site in Taipei's Xinyi district. Last year the site was nothing but a massive hole in the ground, but around the clock construction this year has central section of the tower looking to reach 20 floors by January 1, 2016. NanShan Plaza construction as seen from Taipei 101 in late November. The building is across the street from Taipei 101, and is slated to top out somewhere around the fifty floor mark. Formerly a farm, and then a parking lot, the construction will at the very least help to balance out the Taipei skyline, and dramatically change the view from elephant mountain. It will be nearly doubly the height of the neighboring Hwa Nan building, and artists renderings show the final product resembling the London shard. Construction seen Jan 26th, 2016. Update Jan 2016: The below seems to have resolved itself, and a contact who works at Nanshan revealed that the strike was only for specific job pub