Maoyi No. 3 Village

A military dependents’ village for the ROC army established in 1959, financed by donations that Soong Mei-ling (宋美齡) solicited from the business community. The original housing consisted of single-storey dwellings behind bamboo fences; a community development program begun in 1966 brought paved roads, bridges, and drainage, and an elementary school and other facilities over the next three decades. In the 1980s residents paid to rebuild most of the housing as two-storey townhouses. The last of the households moved out from 2006 onward, after which the emptied village was stripped by scrap collectors and, for a time, gained a reputation as the largest ruin in Taichung. It was demolished in early 2010 to make way for a municipal sports center but much of the original site remains a parking lot as of the mid-2020s.