Laguna City

Laguna City
麗港城
Laguna City, May 2013
General information
Status	Complete
Type	Residential
Location	99 Cha Kwo Ling Road Sai Tso Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°17′6″N 114°9′33″E / 22.28500°N 114.15917°E / 22.28500; 114.15917Coordinates: 22°17′6″N 114°9′33″E / 22.28500°N 114.15917°E / 22.28500; 114.15917
Completed	Block 1-7, 13-16: December 1990 Block 24-31: May 1991 Block 8, 17: December 1991 Block 32-38: February 1992 Block 9, 18: May 1993 Block 10-12, 19-23: December 1994
Management	Citybase Property Management Ltd. (wholly owned subsidiary of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited)
Technical details
Floor count	25-28
Design and construction
Developer	Cheung Kong Holdings, Shell & Hutchison Whampoa Property
Other information
Number of rooms	8072
References
^[1] ^[2]

Laguna City, facing Victoria Harbour. The hill in the background is Tai Sheung Tok.

Laguna City (Chinese: 麗港城) was one of the earliest large-scale private-housing estates built in Lam Tin, Kwun Tong District, in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was developed jointly by Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa Property^[3] and completed in the early 1990s.

Location

Laguna City is built along Lam Tin's waterfront. Part of Laguna City is built on reclaimed land. The development is adjacent to Cha Kwo Ling Village, one of the last squatter villages in Hong Kong.^[4]

History

In the late 1980s, Cheung Kong acquired two pieces of land in Lam Tin, one being a former Shell oil depot, the other above the newly built Lam Tin MTR Station and bus terminus, and developed them into Laguna City and Sceneway Garden respectively.^[5]^[6] Laguna City was completed in 1991 and Sceneway Garden was completed in 1992.

Description

Laguna City consists of four phases, totalling 38 towers at its 1991 completion. There are 3 private roads in Laguna City, which are Laguna Street in phase 1 and 4, Laguna Street East in phase 2 and Laguna Street South in phase 3. Phases 1, 2 and 4 of Laguna City are managed by the same company, while phase 3 has an independent management authority. Similarly, Phases 1, 2 and 4 share an owners' committee, whereas Phase 3 has its own.^[1]^[2] Census data indicate that Laguna City had a population of 23,354 in 2011.^[7]

Built together with Laguna City was Laguna Park, which was completed in 1994 and then handed over to the Urban Council, now the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Laguna Park has a total area of 30,000 sq m (320,000 ft²).

Phase 2 & 3, Laguna City with Victoria Harbour background.
Interior of the Laguna Plaza shopping centre.
Laguna Park entrance

Facilities

3 shopping centres, which are Laguna Plaza, Centre de Laguna and Laguna Arcade.
2 resident club house
1 park
a few children playgrounds and jogging trails
1 pet park located near Laguna City in Kwun Tong Ferry Pier Square.
5 tennis court
2 basketball court
1 soccer pitch
1 public transport interchange with 3 bus routes and 2 minibus routes.
2 kindergartens
Hong Kong Public Libraries mobile library Laguna City stop

Transportation

Railway

Kwun Tong Line Lam Tin Station exit D1

Buses and minibuses

Buses and minibuses serving Laguna City

Buses

Kowloon & New Territories buses
Route	Departure	Direction	Destination	Service Format
40	Tsuen Wan (Nina Tower)	↔	Laguna City
219X	Laguna City	↺	Tsim Sha Tsui

Cross Harbour buses
Route	Departure	Direction	Destination	Service Format
621	Laguna City	↔	Central(Hong Kong Station)	weekdays peak hour only

Lantau & Airport buses
Route	Departure	Direction	Destination	Service Format
E22	Lam Tin (North)	↔	Airport AsiaWorld-Expo
E22X	Yau Tong	↔	Airport AsiaWorld-Expo	weekdays peak hour only

Minibuses

Kowloon minibuses
Route	Departure	Direction	Destination	Service Format
23B	Kwun Tong (Yan Oi Court)	↔	Cha Kwo Ling
23C	Sceneway Garden	↺	Yau Tong Station
23M	Kwun Tong (Yan Oi Court)	↔	Sceneway Garden
23S	Laguna City	↔	Sceneway Garden	weekdays morning peak hour only
69	Laguna City	↺	Kowloon City (Lion Rock Road)
69A	Laguna City	↺	Mong Kok (Embankment Road)

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Laguna City Phase 1,2&4 Resident Website
↑ 2.0 2.1 Laguna City Phase 3 Resident Website (Chinese only)
↑ Hutchinson Whampoa Limited: Property Development
↑ Ng, June (14 May 2010). "Still Standing". HK Magazine. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
↑ Market Behaviour of Developers – Consumer Council. Retrieved on 18 February 2007.
↑ Leung, Sum-cheung (1996). Planning in Hong Kong for industrial relocation (Master of Science in Urban Planning thesis). University of Hong Kong. Retrieved Sep 15, 2014.
↑ 2011 Population Census: Fact Sheet for Laguna City in Kwun Tong District Council District District. For the purpose of the 2011 census, each of the "Major Housing Estates", among which South Horizons was listed, had its own census data entry. Such estates were thus defined: "A group of residential buildings developed by the same developer (either in the public sector or in the private sector) in one or more phases in a neighbourhood and with at least 3,000 residents or 1,000 domestic households in 2011."