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Sands Macao Opens, Ending Stanley Ho's Gambling Monopoly · Chronopin

Architecture09/14/2026@BuildDesk
Marina Bay Sands breaks ground on its fourth tower
Marina Bay Sands, 10 Bayfront Avenue, SingaporeLas Vegas Sands…
Starts 07/15/2025CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE1.2 years agoCNN^[2] (16 July 2025) reports the tower 'broke ground on Tuesday' and Mothership^[3] dates the groundbreaking to the evening of 15 July 2025. The previous date of 31 January 2031 was the expected opening, not the groundbreaking the pin's title describes; the development is still due to open in early 2031.
Las Vegas Sands began construction on an $8BN fourth tower and 15,000-seat arena at Marina Bay Sands, designed by original architect Moshe Safdie.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Māze Opens in Honolulu
604, Ala Moana Boulevard, Kakaako Waterfront, Kaka‘ako, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, 96813, United StatesMāze
Starts 08/31/2021ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE5.1 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as August 2021, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]
Chef Ki Chung opens a tasting-menu restaurant in Kakaʻako that reworks Hawaiian and Asian staples, with drinks by Justin Kawailani Park built into the menu.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Din Tai Fung Opens in Taipei
Din Tai Fung, 19, Songgao Road, Xicun Village, Xinyi District, Xingya, Taipei, 110, TaiwanDin Tai Fung
Starts 12/31/1958ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE67.7 years agoThe article gives the founding year only - 1958 - so the pin takes that year's last day.^[1]
Yang Bing-yi founded Din Tai Fung in Taipei in 1958, first as a cooking-oil retailer and then as a dumpling house when the oil business failed. Its xiaolongbao, pleated to a standard count of folds, turned a single shop on Xinyi Road into a chain across Asia and the United States.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Tai Ping Koon Opens as Hong Kong's Soy-Sauce Western House
60 Stanley Street, SoHo, Central, Hong KongTai Ping Koon
Starts 12/31/1860ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE165.7 years agoWikipedia^[1] states that the founder "established it in 1860 as a restaurant serving Western cuisine" and gives no month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day.
Tai Ping Koon was established in 1860 serving Western food to Chinese diners, and in doing so more or less invented the genre Hong Kong calls soy-sauce Western - Swiss chicken wings in a sweet soy braise, baked pork chop rice, souffle to finish. It began in Canton and became a Hong Kong business alone when the Canton branch was confiscated and closed in 1956.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Hayward Opens in Carlton
209, North Kutch Street, Carlton, Yamhill County, Oregon, 97111, United StatesHayward…
Starts 07/31/2025ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as July 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]
Chef-owner Kari Shaughnessy opens a polished, seasonal restaurant in Carlton, a town of about 2,100 in Oregon's wine country.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Rosy Opens in Cleveland
2912, Church Avenue, Hingetown, Ohio City, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 44113, United StatesRosy
Starts 02/28/2026ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE207 days agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as February 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]
Vinnie Cimino and Andrew Watts, of Cordelia, open a wood-fired restaurant in Ohio City inspired by the Istrian Peninsula.
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Property09/20/2026@BuildDesk
Hetao Tech Park's Remaining First-Batch Buildings Start Completing
Lok Ma Chau Loop, New Territories, Hong KongHong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park Limited
Starts 01/01/2027ESTIMATED 50% CONFIDENCEin 100 daysThe Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau's LegCo reply says "The remaining five buildings of the first batch will be completed progressively starting from 2027", a year rather than a day.^[1]
The last five of the eight Batch 1 buildings in Phase 1 of the Hong Kong Park of the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Co-operation Zone begin coming on stream at the Lok Ma Chau Loop. Two wet laboratory buildings and a talent accommodation block were finished first and the Hong Kong Park was officially opened in December 2025.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Kronenhalle Opens in Zurich
Kronenhalle, 4, Rämistrasse, Hochschulen, Altstadt, Zurich, District Zurich, Zurich, 8001, SwitzerlandKronenhalle
Starts 12/31/1924ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE101.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - established 1924 - so the pin takes that year's last day.^[1]
Hulda Zumsteg took over the Kronenhalle in 1924 and ran it for half a century, taking paintings in part payment and hanging them where the diners sat - so the walls now carry Chagall, Miró, Picasso and Matisse above the tables where Joyce and Giacometti ate.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Joe's Stone Crab Opens on Miami Beach
Joe's Stone Crab, 11, Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, Florida, 33139, United StatesJoe's Stone Crab
Starts 12/31/1913ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE112.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - established 1913 - so the pin sits on that year's last day.^[1]
Joe's opened on Miami Beach in 1913, before the causeway, and built itself around a shellfish nobody was eating: the stone crab, whose claws regrow, served chilled with mustard sauce. It closes for the summer when the season shuts and takes no reservations, which has not thinned the queue in a century.
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Anime09/15/2026@AnimeDesk
Ping Pong the Animation Premieres
Musashino, Tokyo, JapanTatsunoko Production
Starts 04/11/2014CONFIRMED 92% CONFIDENCE86%11 episodes12.4 years agoBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.
Masaaki Yuasa's TV adaptation of Taiyou Matsumoto's table tennis manga begins airing, following high schoolers Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto and Yutaka "Peko" Hoshino as they navigate the competitive table tennis world.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Taquería Elemi Opens in El Paso
7729, Paseo del Norte, El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, 79912, United StatesElemi
Starts 01/31/2026ESTIMATED 90% CONFIDENCE235 days agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as January 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]
Emiliano and Kristal Marentes, owners of the acclaimed Elemi, open a strip-mall taquería in El Paso.
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Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Taipei Performing Arts Center Officially Opens
Taipei Performing Arts Center, Shilin District, Taipei, TaiwanOffice for Metropolitan Architecture
Starts 07/02/2022CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE4.2 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The center had a trial opening in March-May 2022 before it officially opened on 2 July 2022."
OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center, a sphere-studded venue perched above the Shilin Night Market, officially opened after a decade of delayed construction.
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