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Africa’s richest town, Sandton City, rose from race track

If you build it, they will come. This is a line widely attributed to Kevin Costner’s character in the 1989 fantasy film Field of Dreams.

For the Sandton district of Johannesburg, South Africa, fantasy became a reality when a monumental shopping complex was built in the middle of nowhere, and attracted business in droves when it opened.

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