HONG KONG | Highrise Developments Compilation Thread - Page 7

City of Life · #**121** Posted **Jul 11, 2003, 10:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by Rachmaninov

I have shot some good aerial pics of HK while the plane was landing! Would somebody please upload them for me? (I can't upload anything

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Try this: http://hyperphoto.photoloft.com/
It provides free photo hosting service which allow hotlink!

I'm using it right now!

giggschoi · #**122** Posted **Jul 12, 2003, 4:22 AM**

thx CoL~

hkskyline · #**123** Posted **Jul 12, 2003, 4:33 AM**

Owners at Mega Tower site `hold out for $50m'
Staff reporter

Hopewell Holdings faces another hurdle in its two-decade-old plan to build the Mega Tower hotel and apartment project in Wan Chai, as owners of the two remaining units it needs to acquire are understood to want HK$50 million each.

Hopewell may walk away from the project if no consensus is reached, Hong Kong Economic Journal reported. The company did not return calls yesterday.

The project, which Hopewell first considered in the 1980s, would cost about HK$4 billion and include an 80-storey hotel - the tallest in Hong Kong - and two residential towers of 64 to 76 floors adjacent to the Hopewell Centre in Wan Chai.

The Land (Compulsory Sale for Redevelopment) Ordinance allows a developer to force ``hold out'' owners to put their units up for open auction once it has obtained ownership of 90 per cent of a land lot.

However, the ordinance calculates the number of ownership rights of a single land lot instead of according to their percentage of the site's total areas. As a result, a handful of landlords can block a redevelopment project when the site is made up of several small lots.

Hopewell reportedly already owns 73,000 square feet of the site, which has a total area of 118,800 sq ft. It has also obtained another 45,000 sq ft from the government through land swapping.

But Hopewell must acquire the entire site before construction can proceed. Hopewell also faces a hurdle from the Wan Chai District Council, which objects to the project, fearing it may damage the environment.

Council members complained that at least 500 trees would have to be cut down before construction could start on the Kennedy Road and Ship Street site.

They also claimed the skyscrapers would tarnish the view inside the district.

Hopewell chairman Gordon Wu said earlier that the hotel, which would be about 292 metres high, was well below the 333 metres maximum height suggested by the Town Planning Board.

Shares of Hopewell rose 1.23 per cent yesterday to close at HK$8.20.

12 July 2003 / 02:30 AM

PrOfOuNd_ReTaRdAtIoN · #**124** Posted **Jul 12, 2003, 8:27 AM**

Hi I just got my first digital camera (my first camera). Anyways this is my first picture. I took it from my room's window. One picture might not be enough for proper feed back back but that's alright with me. I will take more photos once I recover from my cough.

teddybear · #**125** Posted **Jul 12, 2003, 2:17 PM**

Bad News for Mega Tower, but I want to see the rendering of this Hopewell project. If they do not look good, use old design such as their current tower, then I'm glad if it won't get built.

cas1976 · #**126** Posted **Jul 12, 2003, 3:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by PrOfOuNd_ReTaRdAtIoN

Hi I just got my first digital camera (my first camera). Anyways this is my first picture. I took it from my room's window. One picture might not be enough for proper feed back back but that's alright with me. I will take more photos once I recover from my cough.

unlucky, it can't show on the page...

cas1976 · #**127** Posted **Jul 12, 2003, 3:27 PM**

sorry, PrOfOuNd_ReTaRdAtIoN
i'm wrong

your photo has show out afterward

Fabb · #**128** Posted **Jul 12, 2003, 8:45 PM**

That's a nice view you have from your room.
We're waiting for the following pictures... Thanks for this one.

hkskyline · #**129** Posted **Jul 13, 2003, 5:18 AM**

Kerry aims to raise $1b on office sales
Eli Lau

Kerry Properties expects to generate HK$1 billion from the sale of office space at its Enterprise Square 3 building in Kowloon Bay.

The 41-floor commercial tower, with 570,000 sq ft of gross floor area, will be launched for leasing as early as October, said Chu Ip-pui, executive director of Kerry Properties Real Estate Agency.

Chu said he was confident the HK$600 million project would attract tenants despite market watchers forecasting a 15 per cent drop in rents in the second half of the year.

``The Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (Cepa) is expected to see more local companies move their production lines to Hong Kong from China, which will not only benefit the Hong Kong economy but also help the office and residential market,'' he said.

Chu said the company anticipated putting all office space of Enterprise Square 3 up for sale, but would not rule out the possibility of renting some at a minimum price of HK$10 psf.

Enterprise Square 3 is expected to be launched for sale at HK$2,000 psf, equivalent to the top leasing price offered in phases 1 and 2.

The building would be ready for tenancy in the first quarter of next year.

Chu said Kerry Properties planned to develop Enterprise Square 5 as a hotel-retail-office project, but many details, including the site, have not been finalised.

He believed there was a strong demand for high-quality office space in Kowloon Bay, where new supply would be in short supply in coming years.

Separately, Sun Hung Kai Properties' executive director Mike Wong said renting all office space at Two International Finance Centre in Central could take up to a year.

Wong refused to say how much space had been leased so far, but said net rental was over HK$20 psf.

About 70 per cent of the retail area had been leased, he said.

12 July 2003 / 02:28 AM

jose_kwan · #**130** Posted **Jul 13, 2003, 5:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by PrOfOuNd_ReTaRdAtIoN

Hi I just got my first digital camera (my first camera). Anyways this is my first picture. I took it from my room's window. One picture might not be enough for proper feed back back but that's alright with me. I will take more photos once I recover from my cough.

nice shot....

so u are watching them grow and blocking the harbor view day by day huh?

PrOfOuNd_ReTaRdAtIoN · #**131** Posted **Jul 13, 2003, 6:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by jose_kwan

Quote:

Originally Posted by PrOfOuNd_ReTaRdAtIoN

Hi I just got my first digital camera (my first camera). Anyways this is my first picture. I took it from my room's window. One picture might not be enough for proper feed back back but that's alright with me. I will take more photos once I recover from my cough.

nice shot....

so u are watching them grow and blocking the harbor view day by day huh?

LOL definately. I was at first quite angry at the fact that they were blocking my view for if they weren't there i would be able to see ifc2 but after seeing them grow I am happy to say I have a good view of them

anyways.. it isn't really blocking my entire habor view for I can see the center and the entire west kowloon

Another picture from my room's window

Fabb · #**132** Posted **Jul 13, 2003, 6:54 AM**

That parking lot will probably tempt a developer some day...

jose_kwan · #**133** Posted **Jul 13, 2003, 7:17 AM**

not too bad for now

PrOfOuNd_ReTaRdAtIoN · #**134** Posted **Jul 13, 2003, 8:29 AM**

hehe. If that parking lot gets developed I will be pretty pissed off. The chances are slight though because the parking lot really isn't that big...

Fabb · #**135** Posted **Jul 13, 2003, 9:28 AM**

Good.
A very tall and slender building will rise, then.
Don't be sorry for the view. You might get a better one in it.

PrOfOuNd_ReTaRdAtIoN · #**136** Posted **Jul 14, 2003, 10:24 AM**

Hi i just recovered from my cough and seeing it's a good day I decided to take some photos. I am new to photography so any comments or suggestions are welcome. enjoy

btw this may take a while to load and if the is an x on the image just left click and press showimage or refresh...

The construction site of AIG tower

LM tower

pacific forum

Police HQ

4 seasons

swimming pool

swimming pool at night

Rachmaninov · #**137** Posted **Jul 14, 2003, 12:24 PM**

Great shots!!!
I'm gonna do that too!

Fabb · #**138** Posted **Jul 14, 2003, 5:59 PM**

Do what ? Dive into the water ? I'm gonna do that too.

Seriously, these are very nice pictures.
Police HQ turns out to be very elegant. I'm still not seduced by Pacific Forum.

wei101 · #**139** Posted **Jul 14, 2003, 6:21 PM**

love the entrance shots of 2ifc

Jaroslaw · #**140** Posted **Jul 14, 2003, 6:26 PM**

What's that camera doing near the bottom of the first photo???

Really good pics.