Budget Speech

Increasing Office Supply

35.      When the new Central Government Complex at Tamar comes into operation, the Main and East Wings of the Central Government Offices will be used by the Department of Justice and the West Wing will be demolished for redevelopment into Grade A offices. We will consider the views collected from the public consultation exercise, and announce the site’s design, planning and particulars of sale later. We will continue the preparatory work to relocate departments in the three government office buildings at the Wan Chai waterfront as and when appropriate to free the land for developing more Grade A offices.

36.      Transport infrastructure will facilitate office decentralisation. The South Island Line (East), which is scheduled for completion in 2015, will facilitate the redevelopment of industrial buildings in Wong Chuk Hang for office use. The development above the terminus of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link located in West Kowloon has been designated as quality office space. Taking advantage of the location of a station of the Shatin to Central Link at Kai Tak, we will develop Kai Tak into another premier office node. The Kai Tak Government Offices, expected to be completed in 2015, will speed up the development of commercial office space at this brand new node. The Kai Tak Development will create noticeable synergy with the office belt transformed from the former industrial areas in Kwun Tong and Kowloon Bay.

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