Update | Henderson Land tycoon Lee Shau-kee gives land in Tuen Mun for nursing home
Third time lucky for Henderson chairman as he hands Tuen Mun site to Pok Oi Hospital for use as care facility for elderly with up to 2,000 beds
Property tycoon Lee Shau-kee has succeeded in his third attempt to donate land for public use - by providing a site on which to build the city's largest nursing home.
The hospital, which is managed under the Hospital Authority umbrella but also operates as a charity, has 30 years' experience in running nursing homes.
Lee, the 84-year-old chairman of Henderson Land Development, tried earlier this year to give the government land to build cheap homes for young people, but was turned down. He is still in talks with the non-government Housing Society on a donation of land to build 1,000 small homes to sell at HK$1 million each.
Donation of the Tuen Mun site, a public car park close to Siu Hong West railway station, was formally completed on Friday.
"Pok Oi has a good track record in providing elderly nursing services and the site is only 15 minutes away from the hospital," Henderson vice-chairman Colin Lam Ko-yin told the South China Morning Post yesterday.
He said the company had planned to use the land to build flats, but the application process was too "lengthy". The nursing home would address the city's ageing population problem.