LHT Tower or Luk Hoi Tong Building () is an office building and shopping mall at 31

Queen's Road Central Queen's Road is a collection of roads along the northern coast of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong, within the limit of Victoria, Hong Kong, Victoria City. It was the first road in Hong Kong, constructed History of Hong Kong (1800s–1930s), by ...

, Central,

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. It is directly adjacent to MTR

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. It was opened in November 2011.

History

LHT Tower was constructed at the former site of the Queen's Theatre. It is owned by The Luk Hoi Tong Company Limited. In 2008, the old building was demolished to be redeveloped.

Architect and construction

It is designed by Rocco Design Architects Limited, Gammon Construction Limited was awarded the contract for the redevelopment. The property is managed by

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Building

Luk Hoi Tong Building comprises a 28-storey mixed office and retail tower with a gross floor area of 21,000 square metres, spreading over 21 floors of office, two levels of mechanical floor, a three-level podium retails, a basement floor and two dining floors. The site was originally occupied by the old Queen's Theatre in 1925 and was later developed into an office cum cinema building in 1961.

Tenants

Gap occupies 15,000 square feet of office space in the redeveloped LHT Tower on Queen's Road Central in November, with

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taking a smaller store in the same building.Backs to the mall
''Business, South China Morning Post'', Alex Frew McMillan. 12 September 2011.

References

External links

Official website
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