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Opinion | Will Hong Kong’s new sports park (and Sevens home) thrill you? Don’t hold your breath
- New World Development wins the tender for the HK$30 billion park at Kai Tak but will its design, build and operate model be new world?
- Hong Kong Sevens fans take note: there is a South Stand but you may have to migrate to the bigger North Stand
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Why you can trust SCMP
We want wow, we want jaw-dropping, we want X factor. We want something befitting Hong Kong’s self-anointed claim as Asia’s World City. But what will we get in our new Kai Tak Sports Park and future home of the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens?
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Government constraints will ensure none of these at the new HK$30 billion project – and we certainly don’t see any in the limited information released.
You can guarantee the park will be practical and functional and there is little doubt the government took the safe option in awarding the tender to a subsidiary of local property developer New World Development.
That’s probably not surprising, with the fires it is fighting on construction crises and budget blowouts in mega infrastructure projects such as the Sha Tin-Central rail link. The last thing it needs is another project mired in controversy and delays.
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