The sales record shows the great demand for the small. rear units. All were sold at between $50.000 and $54.000 well before the completion of the building. The front flats also sold well at between $80,000 and $85.000.
A tribute to the designers is the fact that they have been asked to plan five new building projects in the immediate vicinity by speculators who have seen Broadview Mansion. These buildings include a 15 storey shop and apartment building at 51 Wong Nei Chong Road. a 13 storey shop and apartment building at 55,57 Wong Nei Chong Road and a 13 storey shop and apartment building at 39.41 Wong Nei Chong Road.
Broadview Mansion, situated at 73, 75 and 75A Wong Nei Chong Road. has a surprisingly good view over Wanchai. Central and across the harbour to Kowloon. It has a total area of 6016 square feet and a building volume of 39,400 cubic feet.
It was built by Cheong Sun Investments Ltd.
a company whose primary aim is to finance and build small and medium size Euro- pean type apartments and Chinese
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42.000 $ 912.350
The cost of the reinforced concrete structure, which took eighteen months to complete. can be broken down into.-
Piling Building Lifts (2) Electricity, drainage, fire
fighting equipt. etc. $ 27.900
TOTAL
$1.096.000
$ 113.750
Building cost per cubic foot was $2.88.
General contractor for the project was the Hung On Construction Co. Sub-contractors and suppliers in- cluded.
PARQUET FLOORING: The China Engineers Ltd. (B.W. Parquet). LIFTS: The China Engineers Ltd.
(Mitsubishi).
PILING: K.K. Piling Co. SANITARY FITTINGS:
Sanitary Ware Co.
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ELECTRICAL: Kwong Kee Electri-
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