Maritime Square is a four-storey

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located on Tsing Yi Island in Hong Kong. It was built and is owned by

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(MTRC) in conjunction with the opening of Tsing Yi station.

History

The shopping centre opened on 1 April 1999 and has a floor area of . The landlords claimed in December 2004 that daily pedestrian traffic at the mall is 170,000. MTR expanded the shopping centre onto the site of the Tsing Yi lorry park. Some opposed the plan because it blocks the already crowded skyline. The MTR broke ground on the $2.4 billion project in 2015, and work was completed in 2017.

Design

Maritime Square is the first shopping mall in Hong Kong adopting ocean and navigation as the design theme.

Shops

Maritime Square houses a total of 140 shops. There are a wide variety of restaurants, bookstores, fashion stores, electrical appliances stores, supermarket, cinema and banks, etc. Numerous types of restaurants are available. For example, fast food restaurants like Café de Coral, traditional Chinese restaurants, cafés like

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and restaurants providing Japanese and Thai food. There is also a Hong Kong Jockey Centre, which is the first off-course betting branch of the

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to be opened on the island.

Facilities

The following various customer services are available at the Customer Service Centres:''Facilities in Maritimes Square''
Official website * Enquiries on mall promotional activities and transportation information * Wheelchair lending (within the mall area only) * Baby stroller lending (within the mall area only and limited supply) * Emergency mobile phone battery charging * Disposable raincoat * Umbrella lending (limited supply) * Lost child handling and lost & found service * Octopus card add-value service

References

External links

* {{Shopping centres in Hong Kong Tsing Yi MTR Corporation Shopping malls established in 1998 Private housing estates in Hong Kong Shopping centres in Hong Kong