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HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY #»BZAT

PRESS RELEASE

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Friday, May 14, 1976

HOUSING ESTATE ON TSING YI ISLAND TAKING SHAPE

Huge housing blocks are rising on a 70-acre site on Tsing Yi

Island where Housing Authority's first public housing estate is gradually

taking shape.

Construction of the first phase of the housing project, comprising

four 22 to 24 storey twin-tower blocks and one slab block, is at an advanced

stage with the first blocks scheduled for completion early next year.

They will provide about 3,000 flats of varying sizes from 240

square feet to 590 square feet for about 23,000 people.

Also being built on the site is a large commercial complex with

restaurants, super-markets, department stores and adequate shopping

facilities for the islanders.

A further phase of the project, including the building of two

more twin-tower blocks, three primary schools and ancillary works is to

begin in about four months.

The Housing Authority is inviting approved contractors who have

interest in tendering for the building work to write to its Committees'

Secretary at the new Housing Authority Headquarters at 101 Princess Margaret

Road, Kowloon, before noon on Friday, May 28, 1976.

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Situated on the slope just off the western end of the Tsing Yi

Bridge overlooking the Rambler Channel, the estate, on completion in the

early 1980s, will be the homes of over 50,000 people.