Kwai Chung Plaza (葵涌廣場) 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 ...

and shopping centre located in the Kwai Tsing District at 7 – 11 Hing Fong Road, Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is adjacent to

Kwai Fong Estate Kwai Fong Estate () is a public housing estate in Kwai Fong, Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was built in the reclaimed land of Gin Drinkers Bay, later the town centre of Kwai Chung, south of Kwai Hing Estate. Kwai Fong station is na ...

Metroplaza Metroplaza () is a shopping centre and office building developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties, officially opened in January 1993. It is located in Kwai Fong, Hong Kong and is opposite to Kwai Fong station of MTR. The mall is a shopping hub of adj ...

and

Kwai Fong station Kwai Fong () is an elevated railway station on of Hong Kong's MTR system. Opened on 10 May 1982, it is located between and stations. Named after Kwai Fong Estate, a large public housing estate to its northeast, Kwai Fong, the neighbourhood ...

of MTR. The plaza comprises residential and sellable areas. There are 640 units for dwelling in 3 blocks, Block 1 and Block 2 with 27 floors, and Block 3 with 26 floors. The plaza provides 318 to 1,079 square feet of space for shopping. The shopping centre houses numerous small shops providing various services. It contains restaurants, department stores, clinics, retails for clothing, specialities, groceries, sundry goods, and small business shops.

History

The site where the plaza is located now was previously the Kwai Fong

Temporary Housing Area A Temporary Housing Area (THA; ) is an area designated for people living in temporary houses made by wood frames and zinc plates in Hong Kong. The houses are built by the Hong Kong Government beginning in 1964 to replace wooden huts and squatter ...

. The temporary housing area was cleared and further developed into Kwai Chung Plaza by

Nan Fung Group Nan Fung Group () is a privately held group of companies carrying on the business of real estate development, property development as its core business in Greater China, including shipping, textiles and financial services. It is also one of the l ...

in 1990.

Location

Kwai Chung Plaza is located in the Kwai Tsing District at 7 – 11 Hing Fong Road, and is connected to MetroPlaza, Kwai Chung Sports Ground, and Kwai Fong Estate by footbridge. Kwai Chung Plaza is located in the Kwai Chung district of Hong Kong, in close proximity to

Kwai Shing East Estate Kwai Shing East Estate () is a public housing estate in Kwai Shing, Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong located at the east of Kwai Shing West Estate and near MTR Kwai Hing station. It consists of ten residential blocks completed between 199 ...

. There are several transport stops at Kwai Chung Plaza Blocks, the main one being Kwai Fong MTR Station, followed by several smaller stops. Although most of the residential buildings in Kwai Chung Plaza have podium gardens, these gardens are not connected to the transport stops in this area, so residents cannot reach the podium gardens directly from the MTR station. The residential area of Kwai Chung Plaza Blocks is characterised by their lower position than the podium gardens, which separate the residents from the public. Roads are in all directions connected by bus stations, and

is on the southeast side of the plaza. The plaza is surrounded by residential areas, playgrounds, parks, commercial complexes, schools and colleges

References

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