Yau Ma Tei Carpark Building Night view 202010

Yau Ma Tei Carpark Building aerial view 202012

Yaumatei Car Park Building Level 8 202005

Yau Ma Tei Car Park Building () was a public

multi-storey car park A multistorey car park (British and Singapore English) or parking garage (American English), also called a multistory, parking building, parking structure, parkade (mainly Canadian), parking ramp, parking deck or indoor parking, is a build ...

located at No. 250

Shanghai Street Shanghai Street is a 2.3 km long List of streets and roads in Hong Kong, street in the Jordan, Hong Kong, Jordan, Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok areas of Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Completed in 1887 under the name of Station Street (差館街), it ...

Yau Ma Tei Yau Ma Tei is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District in the south of the Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. Name ''Yau Ma Tei'' is a phonetic transliteration of the name (originally written as ) in Cantonese. It can also be spelt as Yaumatei, ...

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 ...

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 ...

. Built in 1970, the building is scheduled for demolition in 2021.

History

The Yau Ma Tei Car Park Building and the nearby Yau Ma Tei Government Office occupy the former site of an old market, after which the adjacent Market Street (), considered one of the oldest streets in

Kowloon Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...

, is named. The market was relocated to the Yau Ma Tei Market (), built in 1957 along Kansu Street. The Yau Ma Tei Car Park Building opened in early 1970. In 1977, the

Gascoigne Road Flyover Gascoigne Road () is a main road in Kowloon, Hong Kong, going west-east from Nathan Road to Chatham Road South through the head of King's Park, leading vehicles from West Kowloon to the Cross-Harbour Tunnel. Gascoigne Road Flyover () is a ...

was built to bypass existing surface road and go through the building. A contract for works including the demolition of the Yau Ma Tei Car Park Building was signed on 6 March 2018 between the

Highways Department Highways Department is a department of the Hong Kong Government responsible for developing Hong Kong's road and railway network as well as road maintenance. History The department was previously an office within the former Civil Engineering De ...

and Build King-SKEC Joint Venture. The car park was closed in phases starting on 1 November 2020, and finally on 1 January 2021.

Features

The

, part of the

West Kowloon Corridor West Kowloon Corridor is part of Route 5 in Hong Kong. Bypassing existing surface roads in West Kowloon, it connects Lai Chi Kok Road in Cheung Sha Wan with the Gascoigne Road Flyover near Yau Ma Tei. The highway was built in 4 phases: *Phase 1 ...

, passes through the building. Yau Ma Tei Car Park has 770 parking spaces for private cars and 76 parking spaces for motorcycles. The building also houses or has housed government offices and facilities, as well as non governmental offices. They include: * Yau Ma Tei Public Library on the lower floors * Government offices on the uppermost storeys * Hong Kong branch of the

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrati ...

. 9th floor.

References

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History

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