Maritime Square Explained

Maritime Square
Address:33 Tsing King Road (Phase 1)
31 Tsing King Road (Phase 2)
Location:Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong
Coordinates:22.3557°N 114.1082°W
Opening Date: (Phase 1), (Phase 2)
Developer:MTR Corporation Limited
Number Of Stores:140
Manager:MTR Properties Management
Floors:4
Publictransit:Tsing Yi station

Maritime Square 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.

History

The shopping centre opened on 1 April 1999 and has a floor area of . The landlords claimed in December 2004 that daily pedestrian traffic at the mall is 170,000.[1]

MTR expanded the shopping centre onto the site of the Tsing Yi lorry park.[2] Some opposed the plan because it blocks 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 Café 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]

Notes and References

  1. News: Lau . Eli . MTRC malls face rent rises . . 3 December 2004 . 2007-02-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090217072337/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=&art_id=1870&sid=&con_type=1&d_str=20050121&sear_year=2005 . 17 February 2009 . dmy-all.
  2. News: Li. Sandy. MTR Corp breaks ground on HK$2.4 billion shopping mall in Tsing Yi. South China Morning Post. 12 June 2015.
  3. http://www.maritimesquare.com/eng/ms/shopping/list Shops in Maritime Square
  4. http://www.maritimesquare.com/eng/ms/inmallservice/inmallservice.jsp Facilities in Maritimes Square