Once the games are finished, the parks, competition venues, residential facilities, sports complexes, media centers, and commercial facilities now on the drawing board will provide the population of Beijing with recreational and athletic facilities for decades to come and establish Beijing as an ideal host for a wide variety of national and international athletic competitions.
The placement of Beijing's Olympic Park, extending northwards from the 1990 Asian Games Village, represents the final step in the development of the northern terminus of the city's north-south axis. The park, which may feature a 120-story Beijing World Trade Center and its own business district, will provide yet another space that may emerge as the center of a major new commercial development area to counterbalance the dense development in the city center to the south.
