Laguna City

Laguna City
麗港城

Laguna City, May 2013
General information
Status Complete
Type Residential
Location 99 Cha Kwo Ling Road
Sai Tso Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Coordinates 22°17′6″N 114°9′33″E / 22.28500°N 114.15917°E / 22.28500; 114.15917Coordinates: 22°17′6″N 114°9′33″E / 22.28500°N 114.15917°E / 22.28500; 114.15917
Completed Block 1-7, 13-16: December 1990
Block 24-31: May 1991
Block 8, 17: December 1991
Block 32-38: February 1992
Block 9, 18: May 1993
Block 10-12, 19-23: December 1994
Management Citybase Property Management Ltd.
(wholly owned subsidiary of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited)
Technical details
Floor count 25-28
Design and construction
Developer Cheung Kong Holdings, Shell & Hutchison Whampoa Property
Other information
Number of rooms 8072
References

[1]

[2]
Laguna City, facing Victoria Harbour. The hill in the background is Tai Sheung Tok.

Laguna City (Chinese: 麗港城) was one of the earliest large-scale private-housing estates built in Lam Tin, Kwun Tong District, in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was developed jointly by Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa Property[3] and completed in the early 1990s.

Location

Laguna City is built along Lam Tin's waterfront. Part of Laguna City is built on reclaimed land. The development is adjacent to Cha Kwo Ling Village, one of the last squatter villages in Hong Kong.[4]

History

In the late 1980s, Cheung Kong acquired two pieces of land in Lam Tin, one being a former Shell oil depot, the other above the newly built Lam Tin MTR Station and bus terminus, and developed them into Laguna City and Sceneway Garden respectively.[5][6] Laguna City was completed in 1991 and Sceneway Garden was completed in 1992.

Description

Laguna City consists of four phases, totalling 38 towers at its 1991 completion. There are 3 private roads in Laguna City, which are Laguna Street in phase 1 and 4, Laguna Street East in phase 2 and Laguna Street South in phase 3. Phases 1, 2 and 4 of Laguna City are managed by the same company, while phase 3 has an independent management authority. Similarly, Phases 1, 2 and 4 share an owners' committee, whereas Phase 3 has its own.[1][2] Census data indicate that Laguna City had a population of 23,354 in 2011.[7]

Built together with Laguna City was Laguna Park, which was completed in 1994 and then handed over to the Urban Council, now the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Laguna Park has a total area of 30,000 sq m (320,000 ft²).

Facilities

Transportation

Railway

Kwun Tong Line Lam Tin Station exit D1

Buses and minibuses

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Laguna City Phase 1,2&4 Resident Website
  2. 1 2 Laguna City Phase 3 Resident Website (Chinese only)
  3. ↑ Hutchinson Whampoa Limited: Property Development
  4. ↑ Ng, June (14 May 2010). "Still Standing". HK Magazine. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
  5. ↑ Market Behaviour of Developers – Consumer Council. Retrieved on 18 February 2007.
  6. ↑ Leung, Sum-cheung (1996). Planning in Hong Kong for industrial relocation (Master of Science in Urban Planning thesis). University of Hong Kong. Retrieved Sep 15, 2014.
  7. ↑ 2011 Population Census: Fact Sheet for Laguna City in Kwun Tong District Council District District. For the purpose of the 2011 census, each of the "Major Housing Estates", among which South Horizons was listed, had its own census data entry. Such estates were thus defined: "A group of residential buildings developed by the same developer (either in the public sector or in the private sector) in one or more phases in a neighbourhood and with at least 3,000 residents or 1,000 domestic households in 2011."

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