HK Tseung Kwan O Po Lam Metro City Phase 2 Platform Garden Podium

Metro City () is the largest

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 in

Tseung Kwan O Tseung Kwan O New Town is one of the nine new towns in Hong Kong, built mainly on reclaimed land in the northern half of Junk Bay (known as Tseung Kwan O in Chinese/Cantonese language) in southeastern New Territories, after which it is named ...

New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...

, Hong Kong, developed by

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. Built on the

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Po Lam Po Lam ( Chinese: 寶琳 or 寶林) is a neighbourhood in northern Tseung Kwan O, New Territories. An MTR station with the same name, Tseung Kwan O Village, Yau Yue Wan Village, King Lam Estate, and Po Lam Estate are located there. Name ...

, the estate was developed in three phases. The

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Po Lam station Po Lam () is the northern terminus MTR station of the . It is located on Mau Yip Road, Po Lam, in the New Territories of Hong Kong, sandwiched by Phases 1 to 3 of Metro City. Built by Maeda Corporation, it opened on 18 August 2002. The name o ...

, terminus of

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, is located next to Metro City Phase II. Metro City Phase II also serves as the Po Lam public transit terminal.

Residential blocks

The estate is divided into three phases by the order of their development, offering a total of 6768 units. Phase 1 consists of 6 blocks completed in 1996. Phase 2 consists of 11 blocks completed in 2000. Phase 3, also called The Metropolis (), consists of 4 blocks completed in 2002.

Shopping centre

Each phase of Metro City has its own shopping centre. The shopping centre is the largest in Tseung Kwan O and covers 1.5 million square feet in size. It houses a

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, two

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, a

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, and over 400 shops. There are two cinemas in Tseung Kwan O, one is located at Metro City. Footbridges connect the three shopping centres.Metro City Phase I
Surrounding housing estates such as The Pinnacle, Verbena Heights, Po Lam Estate, and

Yan Ming Court Po Lam Estate () is a mixed TPS and public housing estate in Tseung Kwan O, New Territories, Hong Kong, near Metro City and MTR Po Lam station. It is the first public housing estate in Tseung Kwan O and has a total of seven residential blocks w ...

also have direct pedestrian access to Metro City through footbridges. File:Metro City Plaza phase 1 atrium after renovation.JPG, The atrium at MCP One (named Metro City Plaza Phase 1 before renovation) after renovation in 2015 File:Metro City Phase 2 Shopping Mall.jpg, The atrium at MCP Central (named Metro City Plaza Phase 2 before renovation) after renovation in 2014 File:Metro City Plaza Phase 2 Pond 200908.jpg, The ponds and water features inside MCP Central, which were removed after the renovation in 2014 File:Metro City Phase 3 Main Atrium 201405.jpg, The atrium at MCP Discovery (formerly named Metro City Plaza Phase 3) File:HK Tseung Kwan O Po Lam Metro City 2 MCL Cinema.JPG, The cinema (named "MCL Cinema Metro City") in MCP Central, which was being renovated in mid-2019

References

External links

Official website of Metro City
* 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 {{Private housing estates in Hong Kong Residential buildings completed in 1996 Residential buildings completed in 2000 Residential buildings completed in 2002 Po Lam Private housing estates in Hong Kong Shopping centres in Hong Kong Henderson Land Development Shopping malls established in 1996 Shopping malls established in 1998 1996 establishments in Hong Kong