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Festival Walk
Chinese: 又一城

Festival Walk is a shopping centre developed by Swire Pacific in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China. It is the biggest shopping mall in Hong Kong, and was the subject of the single largest property transaction in Hong Kong in 2006. Standard Mandarin – also known as Standard Chinese or Standard spoken Chinese – is the official Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Singapore. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), commonly called Pinyin, is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... Standard Cantonese is a variant, and is generally considered the prestige dialect of Cantonese Chinese. ... Jyutping (sometimes spelled Jyutpin) is a romanization system for Standard Cantonese developed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong (LSHK) in 1993. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see mall. ... The Swire Group is a transnational corporation headquartered in London, England. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

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Festival Walk comprises some 200 shops, 27 restaurants, an 11 screen multiplex cinema, an ice rink, 220,000 square feet of office space and parking accommodation for 850 cars.


Ownership

The development was a 50:50 joint venture between Swire and CITIC Pacific. In January 2006, in Hong Kong's biggest property deal, Swire paid HK$6.18 billion to buy out its partners half share. In July 2007, it was announced that Swire Pacific was contemplating listing the property as a real estate investment trust[1]. CITIC Pacific is a Hong Kong-based conglomerate company. ... ISO 4217 Code HKD User(s) Hong Kong Inflation 2. ... // A Real Estate Investment Trust or REIT (rēt, rhymes with treat) is a tax designation for a corporation investing in real estate that reduces or eliminates corporate income taxes. ...


Location

Festival Walk is right adjacent to the Kowloon Tong Railway Station, which is the interchange station of the KCR East Rail and the Mass Transit Railway. It is also in the vicinity of City University of Hong Kong. Kowloon Tong (九龍塘站) is a station on the KCR East Rail in Hong Kong. ... Opening Date 10 October 1911 Stations 14 Number of trains 37 Service Area North, Tai Po, Sha Tin, Yau Tsim Mong, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City The East Rail (東鐵) is one of the three lines of the KCR network in Hong Kong. ... This article is about the metro system in Hong Kong. ... Main campus of CityU The City University of Hong Kong (CityU) (Traditional Chinese: ) is one of the eight universities in Hong Kong. ...


References

  1. ^ Tim LeeMaster & Yvonne Liu, "Swire considers Festival Walk reit", Page B1, South China Morning Post, July 12, 2007

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