Details of a multimillion-dollar commercial and cultural town centre that could set a trend in local housing estate planning were announced by the Hongkong Housing Authority.
The HK$3,755,000 centre, including room for a community hall, department store, restaurant, bowling alley, multi-storey car park and an original piece of sculpture will be built at the Wah Fu Estate, Pok Fu Lam.
“The estate will occupy an area of 29 acres (18 hectares). ‘If this centre is successful it’s bound to be incorporated in future estates of the Hongkong Housing Authority,’ A. de O. Sales, chairman of the Authority’s Executive Committee, told.
Designed to be the ‘heart’ of the estate by night and by day, the centre will feature a traffic-free pedestrian podium on its main deck leading to clinics, a maternity home, banks and shops.
