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Holt's Wharf () was a
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in
Tsim Sha Tsui Tsim Sha Tsui, often abbreviated as TST, is an list of areas of Hong Kong, urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed from the Hu ...
,
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 ...
, Hong Kong in the 20th century. It was set up in 1910 and jointly owned by British
Swire Group Swire Group () is a Hong Kong- and London-based British conglomerate. Many of its core businesses can be found within the Asia Pacific region, where traditionally Swire's operations have centred on Hong Kong and mainland China. Within Asia ...
and
Blue Funnel Line Alfred Holt and Company, trading as Blue Funnel Line, was a UK shipping company that was founded in 1866 and operated merchant ships for 122 years. It was one of the UK's larger shipowning and operating companies, and as such had a significan ...
. It was located at the southeast seaside of Tsim Sha Tsui and the south of Signal Hill. Since it was next to Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, it acted as a railway and
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hub in Hong Kong. In 1971, Swire Group and Blue Funnel Line sold the site to
New World Development New World Development Company Limited (NWD), is a Hong Kong-based company focused on property developer in Hong Kong, property, hotels, infrastructure and services and department stores. It was established on 29 May 1970 by Cheng Yu-tung. The ...
. Two years later in 1973, New World Development commenced the construction of
New World Centre The New World Centre () was a retail-hotel-residential-office complex on Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It housed two hotels (InterContinental Hong Kong, now closed for renovation in order to rebrand as Regent Hong Kong in 20 ...
and
The Regent Hong Kong The Regent Hong Kong is five-star hotel located at 18 Salisbury Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The hotel is on the harbour, offering views of Victoria Harbour and is close to various tourist attractions. The hotel has 497 rooms and 85 suites and is c ...
(renamed the
InterContinental Hong Kong The Regent Hong Kong is five-star hotel located at 18 Salisbury Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The hotel is on the harbour, offering views of Victoria Harbour and is close to various tourist attractions. The hotel has 497 rooms and 85 suites and is c ...
since 2001) on the site.Paul Tsui Ka Cheung's Memoirs
/ref> Construction was completed in 1982. In 2017, the site renamed to
Victoria Dockside Victoria Dockside is a property development on the waterfront of Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong near East Tsim Sha Tsui station. The development opened in stages between 2018 and 2019 at a cost of US$2.6 billion. First founded in 1910, the site was or ...
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