Whampoa Garden is the largest private housing estate

Private housing estate

A private housing estate is a term in Hong Kong that refers to 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 Society. It usually is characterised with a cluster of high-rise buildings,...

 located in Hung Hom

Hung Hom

Hung Hom is an area of Kowloon, in Hong Kong, administratively part of the Kowloon City District, with a portion west of the railway in the Yau Tsim Mong District. Hung Hom serves mainly residential purposes though is mixed with some industrial buildings in the north.-Geography:Hung Hom is located...

, Kowloon

Kowloon

Kowloon is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It is bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutter's Island in the west, Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south. It had a population of...

, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

. It was built on the site of the former Whampoa Dockyards under Hutchison Whampoa Property

Hutchison Whampoa Property

Hutchison Whampoa Property Limited is the property development and investment arm of Hutchison Whampoa Limited of Hong Kong. It comprises the property interests of Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Company Limited , Hutchison Properties Limited and Cavendish International Holdings Limited .-History:The...

's "garden city" concept and completed in 1991.

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. It includes several shopping arcades, two supermarket

Supermarket

A supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments...

s, a cinema

Movie theater

A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....

, dozens of restaurants, five primary schools, shops, recreational facilities (mainly sport) and a public transport interchange.

Housing

There are 10,431 flats, ranging from 351 to 1,110 sq ft. (33 to 103 m²), in the 88 residential towers. The estimated population of the estate is over 40,000.

Commercial outlets

Notable commercial outlets include:

The first PARKnSHOP

PARKnSHOP

PARKnSHOP is one of the two largest supermarket chains in Hong Kong, the other being Wellcome. PARKnSHOP operates more than 260 outlets in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China....

 Hong Kong Superstore opened in 1996 in Whampoa Garden Phase 12 with a floor space of 4,200 m². As of 2011, there are over 50 superstores in Hong Kong.

The Whampoa is a 110-metre-long boat-shaped shopping centre building built in the original No 1 Dry Dock, in Whampoa Garden Phase 6. A JUSCO

JUSCO

is the acronym for Japan United Stores Company, a chain of "general merchandise stores" and the largest of its type in Japan. The various JUSCO companies are subsidiaries of ÆON Co., Ltd.....

 department store is in its basement.

Transportation

MTR

MTR

Mass Transit Railway is the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong. Originally opened in 1979, the system now includes 211.6 km of rail with 155 stations, including 86 railway stations and 69 light rail stops...

• Hung Hom Station: East Rail Line /West Rail Line
• Whampoa Station is a proposed terminal station on the Kwun Tong Line, located at Whampoa Garden

KMB

• 3B- Tsz Wan Shan (Central) ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
• 5D- Telford Garden ↺ Whampoa Garden
• 7B- Lok Fu ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
• 8A- Whampoa Garden ↺ Star Ferry
• 8P- Laguna Verde ↺ Star Ferry
• 12A- Nam Cheong Station ↔ Whampoa Garden
• 15- Ping Tin ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
• 30X- Allway Gardens ↔ Whampoa Garden
• 85C- Ma On Shan Town Centre ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
• 85S- Yiu On → Hung Hom Ferry
• 85X- Ma On Shan Town Centre → Hung Hom Ferry
• 212- Sham Shui Po (Tokin Street) ↔ Whampoa Garden
• 268B- Long Ping Station ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
• 269B- Tin Shui Wai Station ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
• 297- Hang Hau (North) ↔ Hung Hom Ferry

Cross Harbour Tunnel Bus

• 115- Kowloon City Ferry ↔ Central (Macau Ferry)
• 115P- Laguna Verde → Central (Macau Ferry)

NWFB

• 796X- Tseung Kwan O Station ↔ Tsim Sha Tsui East

Citybus

Citybus (Hong Kong)

Citybus Limited is one of the three major bus operators in Hong Kong. It provides both franchised and non-franchised bus service. The franchised route network serves mainly Hong Kong Island, cross-harbour routes , Ocean Park, North Lantau and Hong Kong International Airport...

• E23- Airport (Ground Transportation Centre) ↔ Tsz Wan Shan (South)
• N23- Tung Chung Station ↔ Tsz Wan Shan (North)

External links

• Location of Whampoa Garden
• S.K. Hui, A. Cheung, J. Pang, "A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Residential Property Valuation:Application to Hong Kong Housing Market", International Real Estate Review, 2010 Vol. 13 No.1: pp. 1 – 29
• Yu, Pui-kwan, Robin, "A study on quasi-public space in large scale private residential development, case in Hong Kong", University of Hong Kong, 2007