HKRI Taikoo Hui () is a mixed use development on

West Nanjing Road Nanjing Road (; Shanghainese: ''Noecin Lu'') is a road in Shanghai, the eastern part of which is the main shopping district of Shanghai. It is one of the world's busiest shopping streets, along with Fifth Avenue, Oxford Street, Orchard Road, Ta ...

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, China. It comprises two office towers, a large retail mall, 102 serviced apartments and a 111-room hotel called The Middle House. In late 2017,

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opened a Reserve Roastery at the project, the largest Starbucks branch in the world at the time.

Location

HKRI Taikoo Hui is located in central

Jing'an District Jing'an District () is one of the central districts of Shanghai. In 2014, it had 1,180,000 inhabitants in an area of . The district borders the Hongkou District to the east, Huangpu District, Shanghai, Huangpu District to the east and south, Put ...

on the busy shopping street of Nanjing Road. It accessible by foot from a large transport interchange on the

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, where lines 2, 12 and 13 converge. The shopping centre is also located close to

Yan'an Elevated Road Yan'an Elevated Road () is an elevated expressway in the city of Shanghai, China. It runs along Yan'an Road in its entirety, continuing from the east terminus of G50 Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway at Huqingping Interchange (close to Hongqiao Int ...

and the North-South Elevated Road, two of Shanghai's major highways.

History and construction

The Dazhongli site upon which HKRI Taikoo Hui was built was first acquired in 2002. The launch of the project, a 50:50 joint venture between

HKR International HKR International Limited (, abbreviated as HKRI) is a conglomerate headquartered in Hong Kong. The company was founded by Cha Chi-ming, a textile industrialist from Shanghai and one of the pioneers of Hong Kong's industrial boom in the 1950-70s ...

and

Swire Properties Swire Properties Limited () is a property developer, owner and operator of mixed-use, principally commercial properties in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Founded and headquartered in Hong Kong in 1972, Swire Properties is a major property d ...

was announced in 2006. Designed by

Wong & Ouyang Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd. () is an architectural and engineering practice based in Hong Kong, with branch offices in Shanghai and Guangzhou. Its head office is in Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay, and it maintains an office in Shanghai. History The comp ...

, the mixed use project was topped out in November 2015 in a ceremony with Zhou Haiying, Deputy Governor of Jing'an District. The mall celebrated its grand opening in May 2017 with The Middle House, a 111-room hotel designed by Italian architect

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, opening in April 2018.

References

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