Time running out for Bruce Lee’s Hong Kong mansion, as developer’s deadline for demolition passes
- Yu Panglin Charitable Trust, which owns the building in Kowloon Tong, says it will begin tearing it down as early as next week
- Last-gasp effort by fan club to save late kung fu star’s former home gets no response from government
Bruce Lee’s former mansion is entering its final countdown as its owner is expected to begin demolishing the kung fu legend’s old home as early as next week to make way for a Chinese studies centre.
Joey Lee Man-lung, vice-chairman of the Yu Panglin Charitable Trust which owns the house, said the trust had received no new proposals from the government to preserve the block after the plan to demolish it was revealed two weeks ago.
“We had promised the Bruce Lee Club to postpone the demolition for two weeks and the deadline expires on Sunday. Yet no government department had contacted us so far,” Lee said. “We will begin tearing down the building as early as next week.”
Structural problems had been discovered in the building that made maintaining it unfeasible, according to the trust.