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Completion is expected about the An escalator will run between the the top floor.
middle of 1960, and when opened ground floor and the first floor, which The hotel will be of reinforced con- this hotel will make available over will be occupied entirely by a shop- crete frame construction and will have 300 rooms.
ping arcade.
central air-conditioning and hot water supplies.
The new building will be eighteen The fourteen floors from the second stories high plus a basement, in which to the fifteenth will contain the guest will be service rooms, such as a boiler bedrooms and suites. room, the air-conditioning plant, On the sixteenth floor will be the furniture store, etc.
The ground floor accommodation will include a large lounge, a coffee shop, and an arcade with four shops,
hotel dining room, a lounge, a night club and the necessary service facilities for these amenities. Manager's quar- ters and a staff dormitory will be on
General Contractor: South Sea
Construction Co.
Piling: Kee Yip Construction Co. Elevators: Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha,
Ltd.
Escalator: Otis Elevator Co.
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