"It's nothing serious. No, I just came back from Japan. I haven't been here for a long time, so I just came over to hang out." Su Cheng sat on the chair with his legs crossed and said with a smile.
"If you don't tell me, I almost forgot that you just came back from Japan. I have been so busy these past few days that I feel dizzy." Wei Li organized the documents on the table and put them on the bookcase. Go on, Bian replied awkwardly.
"Oh? Have you been so busy lately?" Su Cheng asked in surprise.
"There is indeed a rather special event. Boss, do you still remember? A year ago, after you talked to me about the city complex, I started to work on it, and it happened to be Just a few dozen meters away from the soon-to-be-completed subway station in Kowloon Tong, Hutchison Whampoa Group owns a large piece of land, which is very suitable for building such an urban complex, so we plan to build here first. As a trial, we started to build a large-scale commercial city complex on this land this year, with a planned land area of about 156,000 square meters and a construction area of about 420,000 square meters. m, consisting of a large commercial center, commercial pedestrian street, office buildings, apartments and other formats, it is a large urban complex integrating shopping, leisure, catering, entertainment, culture, residence and other functions.
Currently, the name of this commercial complex is tentatively named Hutchison Plaza, which is an abbreviation of our Hutchison Whampoa Group.
The main body of the commercial complex has been completed, the interior decoration is in progress, and the investment plan is about to be launched. This is an unprecedented model in Hong Kong and even the world. I hope it can bring a different mission to the group.
Once this model is successful, Hutchison Plaza will be a new model for us to continue to expand. In the future, I hope that Hutchison Plaza can open to every big city in the world and become an important landmark location of a city.
In the past few days, I have been busy approving and modifying the investment promotion plan submitted by my subordinates. It is now coming to an end. After the plan is finalized, our Hutchison Plaza will officially enter the investment promotion stage. After the investment promotion is completed, , and then proceed to the trial operation stage. After the trial operation, it will be officially opened. We have already confirmed the official opening time, which is the day when the northern section of the Xiangjiang revised early system is opened, which is October 1st.
Although time is tight, with our current reputation, the speed of attracting investment should not be too slow, and many commercial entities are run by ourselves or our brother companies, such as hotels, cinemas, supermarkets, and electrical appliances. For these important parts of the store, investment is mainly concentrated in shopping, leisure, and catering stores. We have considered that these must be well-known brands to enter, and we strive to build our sign at once and make this place a shopping destination for citizens. Trendy!
We have invested more than 80 million Hong Kong dollars in this urban complex, not counting the land price. The cost is much lower than that of popular commercial complexes in the world. "
Wei Li took out a brochure from the bookcase at the back, handed it to Su Cheng, and spoke to him at the same time.
Su Cheng opened the brochure and saw only the top There are pictures one after another. In the pictures, there is a large commercial building with 3 office buildings and 3 apartment buildings. The floors are not high, only 12 floors.
In the office building and apartment building. On the ground floor, a commercial pedestrian street and multiple pedestrian bridges are designed.
Judging from the photos, it is somewhat similar to the Wanda Plaza that was familiar in later Sioux City, but it can only be considered smaller in scale.
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In fact, it is not difficult to build a commercial complex, and the construction department of Hutchison Real Estate Company is a very mature team. Therefore, it is not surprising that this large-scale urban complex can be built in one year.
“You are making really rapid progress.” Su Cheng sighed after putting down the booklet. He rarely pays attention to the operation of the group. After all, there are too many businesses in a group.
He is too lazy to pay attention to projects worth tens of millions.
However, he is still more interested in Asia's first urban complex.
Once the first operation is successful, more Hutchison Plazas will appear in the future.
Currently, Wharf is also building a large-scale commercial complex, Harbor City, but that commercial complex is quite different from the urban complex, and Harbor City is larger in scale, and there are There are many high-rise buildings with a construction area much larger than the current urban complex that Weili mentioned, so the investment in Harbor City is very huge.
“We have also considered that the northern section of the Xiangjiang revised early system will be opened on October 1, so we hope to have the city complex open on the same day to welcome more traffic. Therefore, We have invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this construction, and we have completed it as quickly as possible while ensuring the construction quality. No, it is finally about to be completed." Weili is very proud of this.
At the beginning, when he was designing this urban complex in Sioux City, he had already decided to let Hutchison Whampoa Group work hard in this area.
After all, if it is run well, it can be a direction in which sales channels can explode. Through the bug-like sales channel of Oracle Brand Experience Store, the sales of many of the group's manufacturing subsidiaries have increased significantly. It also made him more enthusiastic about developing sales channels.
Once Hutchison Plaza is successfully put into operation, they will not have the final say on the stores inside.
Su Cheng nodded and asked Xiao Ai to check the opening time of the early revision system.
Soon, the information was displayed in Su Cheng's mind:
On September 30, 1979, the northern section of the revised early system (Kwun Tong to Shek Kip Mei) was completed. It was officially opened to traffic on October 1. At that time, the MTR only operated with 4-car trains, and the lowest fare was HK$1;
On December 16, the middle section of the revised early system (Shek Kip Mei to Tsim Sha Tsui) was opened. The route was extended to Tsim Sha Tsui, but Mong Kok Station and Yau Ma Tei Station were not opened until December 31 and December 22 of the same year respectively due to construction difficulties.
On February 12, 1980, the southern section of the early revised system (Tsim Sha Tsui to Central) was opened to traffic, marking the opening of the entire early revised system to traffic.
After seeing the opening time chosen by Weili, Su Cheng still agreed very much. If he had been asked to decide, he would have chosen the opening time on October 1st. After all, their first city comprehensive The station is built in Kowloon Tong. Kowloon Tong Station is one of the stations in the northern section of the revised early system (Kwun Tong to Shek Kip Mei). The opening time of Kowloon Tong Station is October 1.
On the day the subway station opened, this timeless product also opened. As long as the publicity is in place, you can imagine how crowded the crowd will be! (End of this chapter)