Bellagio () is a
private housing estate
A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex or housing development) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a single development. The exact form may vary from country to country.
Popular throughout the United States a ...
on
reclaimed land
Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new Terrestrial ecoregion, land from oceans, list of seas, seas, Stream bed, riverbeds or lak ...
along
Castle Peak Road
Castle Peak Road is the longest road in Hong Kong. Completed in 1920, it runs in the approximate shape of an arc of a semi-circle. It runs West from Tai Po Road in Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, to Tuen Mun, then north to Yuen Long then east to Sh ...
,
Sham Tseng
Sham Tseng is a coastal area in Tsuen Wan District, Hong Kong, between Ting Kau and Tsing Lung Tau.
History
At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Sham Tseng was 72. The number of males was 32.
In 1982, the Government launched ...
,
New Territories
The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...
,
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
.
History
Formerly the site of the
San Miguel Factory, the estate consists of three phases (Phase 1: Tower 6 to 9; Phase 2: Tower 2 and 5; Phase 3: Tower 1 and 3) completed between 2002 and 2006. It was jointly developed by
Wheelock and Co.
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Wheelock and Company Limited is a Hong Kong-based financial real estate company. It was listed as #1249 on the Forbes 2000 list.
The group's principal activities are property investment, property development, property management and agency, an ...
and its subsidiaries
The Wharf (Holdings)
The Wharf (Holdings) Limited (), or Wharf (九倉) in short, is a company founded in 1886 in Hong Kong. As its name suggests, the company's original business was in running wharfage and dockside warehousing, and it was originally known as Th ...
and
New Asia Realty
Wheelock Properties Limited and Wheelock Properties (Hong Kong) Limited are subsidiaries of Wheelock and Co. Wheelock Properties is a real estate developer and a former listed company in the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Business overview
Wheeloc ...
(later known as
Wheelock Properties
Wheelock Properties Limited and Wheelock Properties (Hong Kong) Limited are subsidiaries of Wheelock and Co. Wheelock Properties is a real estate developer and a former listed company in the Hong Kong stock exchange.
Business overview
Wheeloc ...
).
Layout
The tallest towers in the complex are the Bellagio Tower 1-5, which rise 64
floors
A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many layered surfaces made with modern technology. Floors may be stone, wood, bamboo, metal or any other material that can support the expected load ...
and in height, and Bellagio Tower 6-9, which rises 60
floors
A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many layered surfaces made with modern technology. Floors may be stone, wood, bamboo, metal or any other material that can support the expected load ...
and in height.
[ Bellagio Tower 1-5 and 6-9, which stand as the 50th and 64th-tallest building in Hong Kong, are composed entirely of residential units.] The biggest stakeholder of Bellagio currently is Ian so.
See also
*List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong
Hong Kong has over 9,000 high-rise buildings, of which over 4,000 are skyscrapers standing taller than with 517 buildings above . The tallest building in Hong Kong is the 108-storey International Commerce Centre, which stands and is the 1 ...
References
{{Hong Kong Skyscrapers
Buildings and structures completed in 2006
Residential skyscrapers in Hong Kong
Private housing estates in Hong Kong
Sham Tseng
The Wharf (Holdings)
Wheelock and Company