Ho! Ho! Happy Halloween?

That’s what some at the Citadel Outlets in Commerce might be saying Wednesday, as a 115-foot white fir tree -- the world's largest fresh-cut tree -- is going up ahead of the mall’s Nov. 8 tree lighting concert ceremony.

Mall officials compared the gargantuan fir to several other things to truly demonstrate its size: • You could stack seven double-decker buses on top of each other and still be 10 feet below the top of the tree • The top of the Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel is 25 feet shorter than the tree • Think New York City's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is huge? The Citadel Outlet's tree is 35 feet taller

The mall is known for its early Christmas celebrations, each year raising the tree while it's still autumn.

The tree itself made the journey fr

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