Sun Hung Kai Properties’ Sai Sha project spans about 8.05 million square feet, offering nearly 10,000 units Photo: SingTao
Pre-selling of flats in Sun Hung Kai Properties’ massive Sai Sha, Sai Kung development, called Sierra Sea, is expected to start soon with 781 units going on sale. The project will transform an area once quite rural into a busy urban environment. It totals 9700 flats, housing — assuming three people per unit — 30,000 people. This makes it a new Sai Kung town. (The chief of police for Sai Kung told BUZZ his area covers 45,000 people.) The road around to Ma On Shan has been widened, but not that to Sai Kung. The excuse given is that the hillsides are too steep. Rubbish! Engineers who can build a bridge to Macau can certainly cut back some hills.
Retailers in Sai Kung will be happy once the development fills up with people. Where will they go to eat and play? Sai Kung, of course. The rest of us will glumly watch the new hordes.
The first phase of the buildings can be seen now thrusting into the sky near the coast and GoPark. The developer is getting some things right. It claims on its website to have planted the roadside pink trumpet trees which have so delighted residents, cameras in hand, when they were flowering. Now lovely yellow ones have succeeded them. (You can see them in our central square too, likely ringed with admiring people, clicking away.)
The development on both sides of Sai Sha Rd at Shap Sze Heung is SHKP’s biggest for many years. It is 4.7 million sq ft of residences and 288,000 sq ft of commercial properties.
GoPark is attractive and worth a visit. It has many restaurants, some beautifully decorated, and acres of sports grounds that residents can book. GoPark is beautifully designed with curvaceous low-rise buildings by the architectural firm of the late Zaha Hadid.
SHKP says it is building a community facility near GoPark that will have a home and day care centre for the elderly, facilities for the disabled and a special care centre. A water sports park will open shortly on the coast.
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