Whampoa Garden () is the largest

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Hung Hom Hung Hom () is an area in the southeast of Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. Including the area of Whampoa, Tai Wan, Hok Yuen, Lo Lung Hang and No. 12 Hill are administratively part of the Kowloon City District, with a portion west of Hu ...

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, Hong Kong. It was built on the site of the former Whampoa Dockyards by

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. The urban design of the estate incorporates concepts inspired by the

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Hutchison Whampoa Limited: Property Development
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Features

The estate covers 19 hectares and consists of 12 complexes. Ten are residential/commercial mixed use, with a total of 88 16-storey residential high-rise towers. The other two are solely commercial use.Chan, Chi-kau, Johnnie Casire
"Community development and management of private sector housing estates in Hong Kong"

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, August 1995 There was a height restriction on the buildings due to its proximity to the

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at the time. It includes eight shopping arcades, three supermarkets, a cinema, hundreds of restaurants and shops, a karaoke, five primary schools, mini-parks and two public transport interchange. Most notable shops include Sushiro,

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(Japanese department store), Sukiya, Wonderland Superstore. There are 10,431 flats, ranging from , in the 88 residential towers. Notable commercial outlets include the first ParknShop Hong Kong Superstore, which was opened in 1996 in Whampoa Garden Phase 12 with a floor space of ; , there are over 50 superstores in Hong Kong. ''The Whampoa,'' a -long boat-shaped shopping centre built in the original No. 1 Dry Dock, is located in Phase 6. During the 1980s and 1990s, the structure housed a playground on the top and " deck" level, seafood restaurants, a cinema on other floors above ground levels; the department store

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on ground and basement level, and an indoor family theme park (, 開心一號) with an arcade game centre and a roller skating rink on lower basement level. In late 1990s, the department store was taken over by

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department store.Wonderful Worlds of Whampoa commercial centres website: Shop finder
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in 2013, to be consistent with the name change adopted by its parent company in Japan. In May 2016, the department store was renovated and renamed as AEON Style after its reopening in September the same year. There is also a promenade along sea side, from Laguna Verde to

Hung Hom Ferry Pier Hung Hom Ferry Pier () is a ferry pier in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is at the reclaimed Hung Hom Bay at the south of Lily Mansion (Phase 9), Whampoa Garden. History The original pier, opened in 1979 using Streamline Moderne design fr ...

. It is also linked to the Avenue of Stars. One can walk from Hung Hom Pier to Tsim Sha Tsui Pier in about 40 minutes.

Complexes

Demographic

According to the 2016 by-census, Whampoa Gardens had a population of 30,198. The median age was 41.8. Nearly 88 per cent of the estate was of Chinese ethnicity. Cantonese speakers comprised 87 per cent of the speaking population, with English as the second-most usual spoken language, at 7 per cent.

Transportation

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Whampoa Garden is served by Whampoa station, the terminus of the

Kwun Tong line The Kwun Tong line is a heavy-rail rapid transit line of the MTR network in Hong Kong, coloured green on the MTR map. Starting at Whampoa station, Whampoa in Hung Hom and ending at Tiu Keng Leng station, Tiu Keng Leng in Tseung Kwan O, S ...

. The underground station, located beneath Tak On Street, opened on 23 October 2016. ;Ferry ;* Hung Hom to North Point ;* Hung Hom to Central

Education

Whampoa Garden and Whampoa Estate are in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 35. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and Ma Tau Chung Government Primary School (Hung Hom Bay) (馬頭涌官立小學（紅磡灣）).

References

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* S.K. Hui, A. Cheung, J. Pang
"A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Residential Property Valuation:Application to Hong Kong Housing Market"Archive
, '' International Real Estate Review'', 2010 Vol. 13 No.1: pp. 1 – 29 * Yu, Pui-kwan Robin (C: 余沛琨, J: ''jyu4 pui3 gwan1'', P: ''Yú Pèikūn'')
"A study on quasi-public space in large scale private residential development, case in Hong Kong"

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