Whampoa Garden
Whampoa Garden (Chinese: 黃埔花園) is the largest private housing estate located in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was built on the site of the former Whampoa Dockyards under Hutchison Whampoa Property's "garden city" concept[1] and completed in 1991.
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[edit] Features
The estate covers 19 hectares and consists of 12 complexes. Ten are residential/commercial mixed use, with a total of 88 16-storey residential high-rise towers. The other two are solely commercial use.[2] It includes several shopping arcades, two supermarkets, a cinema,[3][4] dozens of restaurants, five primary schools, shops, recreational facilities (mainly sport) and a public transport interchange.[5]
[edit] Housing
There are 10,431 flats,[2] ranging from 351 to 1,110 sq ft. (33 to 103 m²), in the 88 residential towers. The estimated population of the estate is over 40,000.[1]
[edit] Commercial outlets
Notable commercial outlets include:
The first PARKnSHOP Hong Kong Superstore opened in 1996 in Whampoa Garden[6] Phase 12 with a floor space of 4,200 m². As of 2011, there are over 50 superstores in Hong Kong.
The Whampoa is a 110-metre-long boat-shaped shopping centre building[7] built in the original No 1 Dry Dock,[1] in Whampoa Garden Phase 6. A JUSCO department store is in its basement.[8]
[edit] Transportation
- Hung Hom Station: East Rail Line /West Rail Line
- Whampoa Station is a proposed terminal station on the Kwun Tong Line, located at Whampoa Garden
- 3B- Tsz Wan Shan (Central) ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
- 5D- Telford Garden ↺ Whampoa Garden
- 7B- Lok Fu ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
- 8A- Whampoa Garden ↺ Star Ferry
- 8P- Laguna Verde ↺ Star Ferry
- 12A- Nam Cheong Station ↔ Whampoa Garden
- 15- Ping Tin ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
- 30X- Allway Gardens ↔ Whampoa Garden
- 85C- Ma On Shan Town Centre ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
- 85S- Yiu On → Hung Hom Ferry
- 85X- Ma On Shan Town Centre → Hung Hom Ferry
- 212- Sham Shui Po (Tokin Street) ↔ Whampoa Garden
- 268B- Long Ping Station ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
- 269B- Tin Shui Wai Station ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
- 297- Hang Hau (North) ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
- Cross Harbour Tunnel Bus
- 115- Kowloon City Ferry ↔ Central (Macau Ferry)
- 115P- Laguna Verde → Central (Macau Ferry)
- 796X- Tseung Kwan O Station ↔ Tsim Sha Tsui East
- E23- Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) ↔ Tsz Wan Shan (South)
- N23- Tung Chung Station ↔ Tsz Wan Shan (North)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Hutchison Whampoa Limited: Property Development
- ^ a b Chan, Chi-kau, Johnnie Casire, "Community development and management of private sector housing estates in Hong Kong", University of Hong Kong, August 1995
- ^ "GH Whampoa Cinema", cinematreasures.org
- ^ GH Whampoa Cinema on Golden Harvest website
- ^ List of Indoor Public Transport Interchanges and Bus Termini
- ^ PARKnSHOP milestones
- ^ Hong Kong Tourism Board: Where to shop > Kowloon
- ^ Wonderful Worlds of Whampoa commercial centres website: Shop finder
[edit] External links
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- Location of Whampoa Garden
- S.K. Hui, A. Cheung, J. Pang, "A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Residential Property Valuation:Application to Hong Kong Housing Market", International Real Estate Review, 2010 Vol. 13 No.1: pp. 1 – 29
- Yu, Pui-kwan, Robin, "A study on quasi-public space in large scale private residential development, case in Hong Kong", University of Hong Kong, 2007
Coordinates: 22°18′14″N 114°11′32″E / 22.3039°N 114.1922°E
