LOHAS Park is a reclaimed area southeast of Tseung Kwan O. It has earned a bad reputation of being remote, with few services, and the air smells bad due to its proximity to a huge landfill. The entire district is expected to house some 58,000 people once it is complete in 2025.The multiple residential sites were auctioned off in phases over the past many years, all clustering around the MTR terminus station. However, only 1 in 3 trains on the Tseung Kwan O Line go to LOHAS Park during peak hours. For a detailed description of the earlier phases with photos, check out my LOHAS Park page.
This page focuses on the latter phases as the district nears completion. These include :
8 - Sea to Sky (3 blocks with 1422 units) Phase 8 - Sea to Sky Cheung Kong snatched up the last waterfront site in 2015 and planned to invest HKD$10 billion after paying about HKD $2800 per square foot for the plot. Sales began in mid-2020 at over HKD$15,000 per square foot, or $6.4 million for the cheapest 2-bedroom flat.
Phase 10 - LP10 The 85,842 square foot waterfront site was sold to Nan Fung in 2016. The first batch of units were sold during the pandemic at an average price of $15,888 per square foot with high demand.
Phase 11 - Villa Garda Phase 11 was won by a consortium of 3 developers, Sino Land, K Wah, and China Merchants Land in 2019 for the 950,000 square foot site. The price for the plot was about $3200 per square foot. Phase 12 - Seasons
Phase 13 The last piece of the LOHAS Park development was won by a consortium of local and mainland developers that included Sino Land, Kerry Properties, and K Wah in late 2020. The 1.55 million square foot site can yield up to 2550 flats.
A waterfront promenade has opened on the western edge of the site overlooking the rest of Tseung Kwan O and the newly-opened Cross Bay Bridge, which also has a cycling and pedestrian passageway.
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