Olympian City () is a

shopping Shopping is an activity in which a customer browses the available goods or services presented by one or more retailers with the potential intent to purchase a suitable selection of them. A typology of shopper types has been developed by scho ...

and

residential A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family resi ...

complex built on

reclaimed land Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds. The land reclaimed is known as reclamati ...

Tai Kok Tsui Tai Kok Tsui is an area west of Mong Kok in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The mixed land use of industrial and residential is present in the old area. The Cosmopolitan Dock and oil depots were previously located there. Blocks of high-rise residential ...

, Kowloon, Hong Kong, next to the

MTR The Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is a major public transport network serving :Hong Kong. Operated by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL), it consists of heavy rail, light rail, and feeder bus service centred on a 10-line rapid transit network ...

Olympic station Olympic is a station on the of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue. The station was originally named Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by the government in the Airport Core Programme during the 1990s. In 1996, however, when Lee La ...

. It is one of the main shopping and residential areas in

West Kowloon West Kowloon () is the western part of Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong, situated within the Yau Tsim Mong District and Sham Shui Po District. It is bounded by Canton Road to the east, Victoria Harbour to the west and the south, and Jor ...

. The shopping arcades, Olympian City 1, 2 and 3, were developed by

Sino Land Established in 1971, Sino Group () comprises three listed companies – Sino Land Company Limited (HKSE: 083), Tsim Sha Tsui Properties Limited (HKSE: 0247), Sino Hotels (Holdings) Limited (HKSE: 1221) – and private companies held by the Ng Fa ...

while the residential buildings were developed by

MTR Corporation MTR Corporation Limited is a majority government-owned public transport operator and property developer in Hong Kong which operates the Mass Transit Railway, the most popular public transport network in Hong Kong. It is listed on the Hon ...

and Sino Land.

Phases

There were three phases in the development of the Olympian City project: *Phase I included Island Harbourview, HSBC Centre, Bank of China Centre and Olympian City 1, which were completed from 1998 to 2000. *Phase II included

Park Avenue Park Avenue is a wide New York City boulevard which carries north and southbound traffic in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. For most of the road's length in Manhattan, it runs parallel to Madison Avenue to the west and Lexington Av ...

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and Olympian City 2, which were completed from 2000 to 2002. *Phase III included The Hermitage and Olympian City 3, which were completed in 2011. Note that the nearby development of Olympic Station Package 3 ( Harbour Green, developed by

Sun Hung Kai Properties Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited (SHKP; ) is a listed corporation and the largest property developer in Hong Kong as of 2019. The company is controlled by the Kwok family trust, largely the Kwok brothers. The Kwok family trust was set up by Kw ...

) was not part of the Olympian City project.

Shopping arcades

Olympian City 1

File:Olympian City 1.jpg, Olympian City 1 File:Artium of Olympian City 1.jpg,

Plaza A town square (or square, plaza, public square, city square, urban square, or ''piazza'') is an open public space, commonly found in the heart of a traditional town but not necessarily a true geometric square, used for community gatherings. ...

in Olympian City 1 Olympian City 1 is located at exit A of Olympic station, which was developed by Sino Land and completed in 2000. It covers the area of of retail space spread over three floors, with 30 plus stores. The stores include

Chinese restaurant A Chinese restaurant is an establishment that serves a Chinese cuisine. Most of them are in the Cantonese style, due to the history of the Chinese diaspora and adapted to local taste preferences, as in the American Chinese cuisine and Canad ...

s and Western restaurants, lifestyle stores, spa centres, special interests and

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outlets.

Olympian City 2

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Food court A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve dinner. ...

in Olympian City 2 File:HK Olympian 2 City Super Fun Bowl links.JPG,

Bowling alley A bowling alley (also known as a bowling center, bowling lounge, bowling arena, or historically bowling club) is a facility where the sport of bowling is played. It can be a dedicated facility or part of another, such as a clubhouse or dwelling ...

in Olympian City 2 (Closed) File:Broadway Cinema Olympian City 2010.jpg, Former

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in Olympian City 2 Olympian City 2 is located at exit D of Olympic station, which was developed Sino Land and completed in 2001. It covers an area of of retail space spread over three floors, with 180 plus stores. The store includes fashion

boutiques A boutique () is a small shop that deals in fashionable clothing or accessories. The word is French for "shop", which derives ultimately from the Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (''apothēkē'') "storehouse". The term ''boutique'' and also ''de ...

, jewellery shops, speciality lifestyle stores, a

bowling alley A bowling alley (also known as a bowling center, bowling lounge, bowling arena, or historically bowling club) is a facility where the sport of bowling is played. It can be a dedicated facility or part of another, such as a clubhouse or dwelling ...

and a cinema complex. In September 2012, Hong Kong lifestyle retail store G.O.D. in co-operation with Sino Art, held ''The Street Market Symphony Exhibition'' at Olympian City 2, their first solo art exhibition in a shopping mall. The exhibition used multi-media installations housed in large red lampshades, the iconic representation of Hong Kong's

wet markets A wet market (also called a public market or a traditional market) is a marketplace selling fresh foods such as meat, fish, produce and other consumption-oriented perishable goods in a non-supermarket setting, as distinguished from " dry market ...

Olympian City 3

File:Olympian City Phase 3 Outside View1_201107.jpg, Exterior of the mall File:Olympian City Phase 3 Enterance Void 201107.jpg, Crystal Light in the atrium File:Olympian City Phase 3 Access 201107.jpg, Access of UG Floor File:Olympian City Phase 3 Carpark Enterance.jpg, Car park entrance Olympian City 3 is located in the East of Olympian City 2 with a connecting bridge in between. The nearest

stations are Olympic station (Exit D) which can be reached by walking past Olympian City 2, and Mong Kok station (Exit C4) and reached by walking along Argyle Street Westbound. The mall completed in 2011 and there are two floors with over 70 stores.

Residential estates

File:Hoi Fai Road KIL11146.jpg, Island Harbourview File:HK Park Avenue.jpg, Park Avenue File:HK Central Park.jpg, Central Park There are four main private housing estates in the Olympian City project, Island Harbourview,

and The Hermitage which were all developed by Sino Land and MTR Corporation. There are many other residential estates surrounding Olympian City and Olympic station: One Silver Sea, Imperial Cullinan, The Long Beach, Hampton Place, Florient Rise, Harbour Green, Charming Garden and Hoi Fu Court.

Office

File:Olympian City HSBC Centre.jpg, HSBC Centre File:Bank of China Centre.jpg, Bank of China Centre There are four office towers in Olympian City, HSBC Centre (three towers) and Bank of China Centre (one tower). They were developed by Sino Land, but were sold to

HSBC HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational universal bank and financial services holding company. It is the largest bank in Europe by total assets ahead of BNP Paribas, with US$2.953 trillion as of December 2021. In 2021, HSBC had $10.8 tr ...

and

Bank of China (Hong Kong) Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited () also known as its short name Bank of China (Hong Kong) or BOCHK (), is a subsidiary of the Bank of China (via a Hong Kong-listed intermediate holding company BOC Hong Kong (Holdings)). Bank of China (Hong K ...

respectively for their

back office A back office in most corporations is where work that supports ''front office'' work is done. The front office is the "face" of the company and is all the resources of the company that are used to make sales and interact with customers and client ...

headquarters.

References

External links

Official website of Olympian City
* Yu, Pui-kwan, Robin
"A study on quasi-public space in large scale private residential development, case in Hong Kong"

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hon ...

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