Unlike in other countries, the majority of brownfield sites in Hong Kong are inhabited by operators, as opposed to being abandoned or vacant. Photo: Winson Wong Unlike in other countries, the majority of brownfield sites in Hong Kong are inhabited by operators, as opposed to being abandoned or vacant. Photo: Winson Wong
Unlike in other countries, the majority of brownfield sites in Hong Kong are inhabited by operators, as opposed to being abandoned or vacant. Photo: Winson Wong
Chiu Kam-kuen
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Concrete Analysis by Chiu Kam-kuen

Technology can help create a database to speed up the development of 1,400 hectares of brownfield sites in Hong Kong

  • The government should construct a comprehensive brownfield database and plan for ways to accommodate the existing occupants, writes Chiu Kam-kuen of Cushman & Wakefield
  • Hong Kong could learn from successful overseas schemes like the Thames Gateway Project in London and the Pittsburgh Project in the US

Chiu Kam-kuen
Chiu Kam-kuen

Updated: 7:17pm, 20 Oct, 2020

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Unlike in other countries, the majority of brownfield sites in Hong Kong are inhabited by operators, as opposed to being abandoned or vacant. Photo: Winson Wong Unlike in other countries, the majority of brownfield sites in Hong Kong are inhabited by operators, as opposed to being abandoned or vacant. Photo: Winson Wong
Unlike in other countries, the majority of brownfield sites in Hong Kong are inhabited by operators, as opposed to being abandoned or vacant. Photo: Winson Wong
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