Maritime Square

Maritime Square
Maritime Square Entrance After renovation
Location 33 Tsing King Road, Tsing Yi Island (Phase 1) 31 Tsing King Road, Tsing Yi Island (Phase 2)
Opening date April 1, 1999 (Phrase 1) December 16, 2017 (Phrase 2)
Developer MTR Corporation Limited
Management MTR Properties Management
No. of stores and services 140
Total retail floor area 46,000 sq. metres
No. of floors 4
Public transit access Tsing Yi Station
Atrium of Maritime Square
Aquatic Fantaria inside the mall
Tierra Verde, the housing estate above the shopping centre

Maritime Square (Chinese: 青衣城) is a four-storey shopping centre located on Tsing Yi Island in Hong Kong. It was built and is owned by MTR Corporation (MTRC) in conjunction with the opening of Tsing Yi Station. Maritime Square is directly connected to Tierra Verde (盈翠半島; jing4 ceoi3 bun3 dou2), a private housing estate that was also built by MTRC.

History

Opened in April, 1999, the shopping centre has a floor area of 46,000 square metres (500,000 sq ft). The landlords claimed in December 2004 that daily pedestrian traffic at the mall is 170,000.[1]

Recently the MTR expanded the shopping centre onto the site of the Tsing Yi lorry park.[2] Some opposed the plan because it will block the already crowded skyline. The MTR broke ground on the $2.4 billion project in 2015, and work was completed in 2017.[2]

Design

Maritime Square is the first shopping mall in Hong Kong adopting ocean and navigation as the design theme.

Shops

Maritime Square houses a total of 140 shops. There are a wide variety of restaurants, bookstores, fashion stores, electrical appliances stores, supermarket, cinema and banks, etc. Numerous types of restaurants are available. For example, fast food restaurants like Cafe de Coral, traditional Chinese restaurants, cafés like Starbucks and restaurants providing Japanese and Thai food. There is also a Hong Kong Jockey Centre, which is the first off-course betting branch of the Hong Kong Jockey Club to be opened on the island.[3]

Facilities

The following various customer services are available at the Customer Service Centres:[4]

  • Enquiries on mall promotional activities and transportation information
  • Wheelchair lending (within the mall area only)
  • Baby stroller lending (within the mall area only and limited supply)
  • Emergency mobile phone battery charging
  • Disposable raincoat
  • Umbrella lending (limited supply)
  • Lost child handling and lost & found service
  • Octopus card add-value service
  • Letter mailing and postage stamp sale
  • Photocopying service

Transport interchange

MTR
Kowloon Motor Bus
  • 68A- Long Ping Estate ↔ Tsing Yi Station
  • 68E- Yuen Long Park ↔ Tsing Yi Station
  • 248M- Tsing Yi Station ↔ Cheung Wang
  • 249M- Tsing Yi Station ↺ Mayfair Garden
  • 249X- Shatin Central Bus Terminus ↔ Tsing Yi Station
  • 279X- Luen Wo Hui ↔ Tsing Yi Station

[5]

References

  1. ↑ Lau, Eli (3 December 2004). "MTRC malls face rent rises". Hong Kong Standard. Archived from the original on 17 February 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2007.
  2. 1 2 Li, Sandy (12 June 2015). "MTR Corp breaks ground on HK$2.4 billion shopping mall in Tsing Yi". South China Morning Post.
  3. ↑ Shops in Maritime Square, Official website
  4. ↑ Facilities in Maritimes Square, Official website
  5. ↑ Transportation around Maritimes Square, Official website

Coordinates: 22°21′21″N 114°06′30″E / 22.3557°N 114.1082°E / 22.3557; 114.1082

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