Post claims Elon Musk plans an ultra-large building project, a bid to reshape the real-estate narrative around Tesla

A New York Post report alleges that Elon Musk is preparing a real-estate project pitched as the biggest building in the world, with an estimated footprint of about 100 million square feet. The story frames the effort as a competition with China’s New Century Global Center, a sprawling complex described in the Post as covering 18.9 million square feet and featuring major indoor attractions, including an indoor beach and a ski slope.

While the reported figure suggests a project of unusual magnitude, the Post’s account does not provide additional, verifiable specifics in the material available here, such as the location, ownership structure, project timeline, development partners, or whether Tesla would be directly tied to the building’s financing and operations. It also does not quote Tesla executives or point to an official filing or permitting record that would allow the claim to be independently checked from this dataset.

For Tesla, a company best known for electric vehicles and energy products, any large-scale real-estate ambition would be a notable pivot in public perception. Still, without confirmation from Tesla, the Post’s description reads more like a claim about Musk’s plans than a corporate announcement tied to a defined business initiative with measurable impact.

New Century Global Center is referenced in the Post as the current benchmark in its comparison, which helps explain the reporting’s emphasis on scale and the ability to host indoor amenities. A development at the scale asserted in the Post would likely require complex infrastructure planning, major permitting, and long lead times, factors that typically make large landmark projects slower to materialize than slogans or early proposals.

The most important missing piece is attribution. In the information available here, it is unclear whether Tesla executives, Musk personally, or an affiliated development entity is responsible for the concept and whether the plan is at an exploratory stage or backed by executed agreements.

Investors and industry watchers will likely wait for what counts as confirmation in real-estate and development projects: an official company statement, a credible document trail (such as regulatory filings, land records, or financing disclosures), or reports from additional outlets that can cite named sources and concrete milestones. Until then, the claim should be treated as unverified reporting rather than a statement of company strategy.