Hong Kong’s first European-style floral garden moves step closer as company submits proposal on project to government
- Kaleido Park said it submitted proposals to government to develop about 11 hectares of idle land into Dutch-designed garden and exhibition centre
Hong Kong has moved closer to launching its first European-style floral garden on a reserved plot of reclaimed land on Lantau Island.
The company behind the project, Kaleido Park, on Wednesday said it had submitted proposals to the government to develop about 11 hectares of the 60-hectare idle plot into a Dutch-designed garden and an exhibition centre as a new pop-up tourism initiative on the island.
The land has been earmarked for the second phase of Hong Kong Disneyland’s expansion. The project, for comparison, would take up an area a little more than half the size of Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.
Under the plan, the tourist attraction would remain in place for five years, until 2024.
Alan Fang Yan-kit, managing director at Kaleido Park, said the privately funded project would cost “a low nine-figure sum” or more than HK$100 million, and was expected to draw up to 1.5 million visitors per year after the park became fully operational.