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Island Harbourview () is one of the largest
Official website of Island Harbourview
{{Bank of China Private housing estates in Hong Kong Residential buildings completed in 1998 Residential buildings completed in 1999 Olympian City Sino Group Kerry Properties Bank of China MTR Corporation 1999 establishments in Hong Kong
Island Harbourview () is one of the largest private housing estates
Private housing estate is a term used in Hong Kong for private mass housing – a housing estate developed by a private developer, as opposed to a public housing estate built by the Hong Kong Housing Authority or the Hong Kong Housing Socie ...
in Tai Kok Tsui
Tai Kok Tsui is an area west of Mong Kok in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The mixed land use of industrial and residential is present in the old area. The Cosmopolitan Dock and oil depots were previously located there. Blocks of high-rise residential b ...
, Yau Tsim Mong District
Yau Tsim Mong District is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong, located on the western part of Kowloon Peninsula. It is the core urban area of Kowloon. The district has the second highest population density of all districts, at . The 2016 By ...
, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is one of the property projects in MTR Olympic station
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The station was originally named Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by Government of Hong Kong, the government in the Airport Core Programme dur ...
Phase I. Developed by MTR Corporation
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, Sino Land
Established in 1971, Sino Group () comprises three listed companies – Sino Land Company Limited (HKSE: 083), Tsim Sha Tsui Properties Limited (HKSE: 0247), Sino Hotels (Holdings) Limited (HKSE: 1221) – and private companies held by the Ng Fa ...
, Bank of China (Hong Kong)
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, Kerry Properties
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, China Overseas Land and Investment and Capitaland Commercial Limited
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, it comprises nine high-rise buildings
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, which were completed in 1998 and 1999. The towers are numbered from one to ten, but there is no tower four due to local superstition.
Flats in the development range in size from . It is the first estate to be completed in the new Reclamation Area which was part of the 1997 Construction Project.
Demographics
According to the 2016 by-census, Island Harbourview had a population of 6,549. The median age was 42.6 and the majority of residents (85.9 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 2.9 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$90,000.Politics
Island Harbourview is located inOlympic
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** Summer Olympic Games
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constituency of the Yau Tsim Mong District Council
The Yau Tsim Mong District Council is the district council of Hong Kong, district council for the Yau Tsim Mong District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Yau Tsim Mong District Council currently consists of 20 members, of which ...
. It is currently represented by James To Kun-sun
James To Kun-sun (; ; born 11 March 1963) is a Hong Kong lawyer and Democratic Party (Hong Kong), Democratic Party politician. From 1991 to 2020, To was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, representing the District Council (Sec ...
, who was elected in the 2019 elections.
Education
Island Harbourview is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 32. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and Tong Mei Road Government Primary School (塘尾道官立小學).References
External links
Official website of Island Harbourview
{{Bank of China Private housing estates in Hong Kong Residential buildings completed in 1998 Residential buildings completed in 1999 Olympian City Sino Group Kerry Properties Bank of China MTR Corporation 1999 establishments in Hong Kong